Mesh:getVertexFormat

Returns the vertex format of the Mesh, which is a list of "attributes" that make up the data for each vertex (position, color, UV, etc.).

format = Mesh:getVertexFormat()

None

Name	Type	Description
format	table	The vertex format.
.[][1]	string	The name of the attribute.
.[][2]	DataType	The type of the attribute.
.[][3]	number	The byte offset of the attribute.

Notes

If no vertex format is given when the Mesh is created, it will use a default format:

{
  { 'VertexPosition', 'vec3', 0 },
  { 'VertexNormal', 'vec3', 12 },
  { 'VertexUV', 'vec2', 24 }
}

The name of the vertex attribute corresponds to an in input variable in a vertex shader.

There are a few built-in attributes that all shaders will understand and use by default:

Name	Description
`VertexPosition`	The position of the vertex.
`VertexNormal`	The normal vector of the vertex.
`VertexUV`	The texture coordinate of the vertex.
`VertexColor`	The color of the vertex (linear color space).
`VertexTangent`	The tangent vector of the vertex.

See the Shaders and Meshes guides for more info.