A method, apparatus and article of manufacture are provided for sequencing
graphics processing in a transform or lighting operation. A plurality of
mode bits are first received which are indicative of the status of a
plurality of modes of process operations. A plurality of addresses are
then identified in memory based on the mode bits. Such addresses are then
accessed in the memory for retrieving code segments which each are
adapted to carry out the process operations in accordance with the status
of the modes. The code segments are subsequently executed within a
transform or lighting module for processing vertex data.