Re: Queeg QGTriMesh copy ctor dups shader?

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

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

>Okay, so if a want a large number objects made from the same model (which
>then differ by translation, scale, and rotation), then this approach is
>wrong?  I shouldn't create one base object and clone its trimesh this way,
>because you're saying I get gobs of identical shaders and textures.  Is
>that right?

Right.

>So what I need to do is manually duplicate the geometry of the trimesh and
>manually set each trimesh to use the exact same shader object, right?

If the objects are supposed to look the same except for translation, 
scale, and rotation, then I don't see why you'd want to duplicate the 
geometry either.  Just have some group objects containing different 
transformation objects but references to the same geometry objects.
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