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# MTLIndirectCommandBufferDescriptor

A configuration you create to customize an indirect command buffer.

```
class MTLIndirectCommandBufferDescriptor
```

## Topics

### Declaring command types to encode

[`commandTypes`](/documentation/Metal/MTLIndirectCommandBufferDescriptor/commandTypes)

The set of command types that you can encode into the indirect command buffer.

### Declaring command inheritance

[`inheritBuffers`](/documentation/Metal/MTLIndirectCommandBufferDescriptor/inheritBuffers)

A Boolean value that determines where commands in the indirect command buffer get their buffer arguments from when you execute them.

[`inheritPipelineState`](/documentation/Metal/MTLIndirectCommandBufferDescriptor/inheritPipelineState)

A Boolean value that determines where commands in the indirect command buffer get their pipeline state from when you execute them.

### Declaring the maximum number of argument buffers per command

[`maxVertexBufferBindCount`](/documentation/Metal/MTLIndirectCommandBufferDescriptor/maxVertexBufferBindCount)

The maximum number of buffers that you can set per command for the vertex stage.

[`maxFragmentBufferBindCount`](/documentation/Metal/MTLIndirectCommandBufferDescriptor/maxFragmentBufferBindCount)

The maximum number of buffers that you can set per command for the fragment stage.

[`maxKernelBufferBindCount`](/documentation/Metal/MTLIndirectCommandBufferDescriptor/maxKernelBufferBindCount)

The maximum number of buffers that you can set per command for the compute kernel.


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