Buffer Item Size

Hey there,

I’m currently learning WebGL – and I am following a tutorial.

The tutorial is drawing a square on the screen. So, with a set of 4 vertices that have 3 coordinates (x, y, z) we have an item size of 3 and numItems is 4. Also, can one safely ignore the z coordinate? Will it default to 0?

Is there a case where item size will be bigger than 3? I mean… that would be a 4th dimension :lol:

Or, would the 4th item be a color alpha? I don’t expect that it would as that’s handled with shaders.

I also haven’t been able to find documentation for WebGL. I read somewhere that WebGL is basically equivalent to OpenGL ES. Is this the case? Is the OpenGL ES documentation equivalent?

Thanks,
lang14