Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] PyOpenGL Deprecation & New Methods

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@vr...>]

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> Greg Ewing wrote:
>   
...
> Basically there's just no way to do most of the
> things people want to provide in "real" game engines these days with
> display lists.
>   
Ah, Greg clipped this in his reply, so I missed that he was responding
to this idea rather than the sentence before it.  My sentence was
over-stated; you *could* use display-lists combined with shaders, vbos,
fbos, etceteras... it just wouldn't make sense for a C/C++ coded
engine.  Display-listing geometry *at the vertex level* just isn't
useful unless your driver is going to optimize the heck out of the
resulting display list (which they don't).  Using display-lists to
configure VBOs and the like, by contrast, might be useful for Python
coders, but wouldn't do anything useful for C/C++ coders.

Enjoy,
Mike

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