---
title: MTLTessellationFactorFormat
framework: metal
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: metal/mtltessellationfactorformat
---

# MTLTessellationFactorFormat

Options for specifying the format of the tessellation factors in a tessellation factor buffer.

## Declaration

```swift
enum MTLTessellationFactorFormat
```

## Topics

### Factor formats

- [MTLTessellationFactorFormat.half](metal/mtltessellationfactorformat/half.md)

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](metal/mtltessellationfactorformat/init(rawvalue:).md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [BitwiseCopyable](swift/bitwisecopyable.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Specifying tessellation state

- [maxTessellationFactor](metal/mtlrenderpipelinedescriptor/maxtessellationfactor.md)
- [isTessellationFactorScaleEnabled](metal/mtlrenderpipelinedescriptor/istessellationfactorscaleenabled.md)
- [tessellationFactorFormat](metal/mtlrenderpipelinedescriptor/tessellationfactorformat.md)
- [tessellationControlPointIndexType](metal/mtlrenderpipelinedescriptor/tessellationcontrolpointindextype.md)
- [tessellationFactorStepFunction](metal/mtlrenderpipelinedescriptor/tessellationfactorstepfunction.md)
- [tessellationOutputWindingOrder](metal/mtlrenderpipelinedescriptor/tessellationoutputwindingorder.md)
- [tessellationPartitionMode](metal/mtlrenderpipelinedescriptor/tessellationpartitionmode.md)
- [MTLTessellationControlPointIndexType](metal/mtltessellationcontrolpointindextype.md)
- [MTLTessellationFactorStepFunction](metal/mtltessellationfactorstepfunction.md)
- [MTLTessellationPartitionMode](metal/mtltessellationpartitionmode.md)