Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Fastest way to draw lots of points

[Ian M. <geo...@gm...>]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Chris Barker <chr...@no...>wrote:

> Display lists probably wont' help as you would still need to build up
> the list -- it's also old-style and practically deprecated approach.
>
You have to build the VBO too, but yes, display lists are deprecated.

As far as dynamic stars, yes, the idea is to use either a display list or a
VBO and either transform or use a vertex program to move your stars. For
starfields, I personally have gotten compelling results by simply making
several static starfields of different sizes and then scrolling them with
glTranslatef at different rates. This gives a nice parallax effect, and is
essentially just as fast as drawing the stars completely static.

Ian