how is trimesh connected to texture?

[Keith W. <kw...@cs...>]

Here's a seemingly simple question.  How do I make two separate objects,
each with their own trimeshes and UV coordinates point at the same texture
so the texture doesn't need to be stored in VRAM twice?  As an example
imagine that I have a variety of rocks, for the sake of
adding...variety...to the world, but they can all use the same texture.
The trimeshdata structure doesn't seem to have a pointer in it that points
to a texture object, so how is the connection between a trimesh and its
texture even made in the first place?

These kinds of things are sort of "opaque" in that opening 3DMF files is
done with internal function calls, such as Q3File_ReadObject, so there's
no clear way to know what happens under the hood, how textures are
connected to their associated trimeshes for example.

Thanks.

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Keith Wiley                                kw...@cs...
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