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Re: Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
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Date: 
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:26:07 GMT
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Rui Martins wrote:

  I wasn't talking about display lists, and I don't think that the
discussion is going to lead to a single "0 CLIPPING ON" meta command.

  See my previous mail!

  We both want the same thing, now we need to make everybody agree with
us :)

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  NOTE: this reminds me:
        you should always pair the tris and the quads together so that
        the glBegin/glEnd pairs are minimized.
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------

  I sort first by color and then by line type. I have everything
pre-processed and I don't use glBegin()/glEnd() to render.

  Not exactly, you have to lock the arrays to have the vertexes
transformed only once and you can't change any states (not even the
colors) while you have the arrays locked. Or if you are using a display
list and if who wrote the driver was smart enough then the vertexes will
be transformed once (but you can't assume that).

  Let's hope for the best!

  From my personal experience, there's still a lot of people using the
old MS software renderer, it was written in 95 and never updated. Don't
expect much from that. :)

Leonardo



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  Re: Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
 
(...) Great ! (...) Don't be pessimistic ! As soon as people see that their models render twice as fast, they will start using the new features. And a utility to make the optimization job easier would make a big difference, to all the lazy people ;) (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
 
(...) In fact you can, use as many as you like, but that it's not the goal. if you read my previous mail, following this one I'am replying, you got the ideia that no WINDING meta command is the ideia, if the .DAT is well optimized. If someone want's (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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