Re: [Glsdk-devel] Geometry generation

[H. H. <hen...@gm...>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Stefanos A. <sta...@gm...> wrote:

> If I understand correctly, what we actually need is a way to generate
> geometry for the tutorials. Which means we just need the
> vertex/texcoord/normal/element arrays.
>

We want to support OpenGL3 which only has vertex attributes.



>
> While it's good to have functions that *generate* this data, is it really
> a good idea to hide the *drawing* part behind a glsDrawShape function?
> Maybe it would be better to simply return these four arrays and handle the
> drawing inside the tutorial?
>

Basically, I think, we want a library that easies the drawing of simple
objects. We will be having tutorials, of course, of how to draw basic
triangles and stuff. But for a slightly more advanced tutorials and samples,
we need to have some ready made library for drawing stuff. This is how I see
it.


>
> Just trying to understand the focus of the shape functions. What do you
> say?
>
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