Re: Queeg QGTriMesh copy ctor dups shader?

[James W. W. <ja...@wr...>]

Keith Wiley <kw...@cs...> wrote:

>The QD3D manual says that if the new object of Q3Object_Duplicate is a
>shared object, then is ref count is set to one.  Now, Q3Object_Duplicate
>is being called on the TriMesh.triMeshAttributeSet, not the shader per se.
>I assume shaders are shared, but I assume that trimesh attributes sets are
>not, so I'm unclear as to whether duplicating a trimesh a zillion times
>fills RAM up with countless copies of an identical shader and a fairly
>sizable texture bitmap...which is obviously not what I want.

Duplicating Quesa objects is recursive.  When you duplicate an 
attribute set, you duplicate the shader attribute it contains, and 
you duplicate the texture object that contains.
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