RE: [Chromium-dev] tilesort/textures

[Greg H. <hu...@cs...>]

Texture data is treated like any other state element -- it is cached locally
at the application until it is needed.  "needed" in this case means that
some triangle is drawn that is using that particular texture.

--
Greg Humphreys, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
hu...@cs...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: chr...@li... 
> [mailto:chr...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of David Jones
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 2:20 PM
> To: chr...@li...
> Subject: [Chromium-dev] tilesort/textures
> 
> 
> 
> Someone just asked me how textures and tilesort worked, and I 
> wasn't too 
> sure how to answer it.  Is texture data immediately sent to the 
> destination nodes when they're first bound and then cached?  
> Or is there 
> some kind of smart mechanism that sends texture data only to 
> the nodes 
> that will need it?  Or am I way off?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave J.
> 
> 
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