Re: duplicating trimesh data con't

[Dair G. <da...@re...>]

Keith Wiley wrote:

>Fundamentally, I need to know for certain that I am right in my
>assumption that there is only one copy of the texture in VRAM even if
>I have thousands of these objects, assuming their (unique) shaders all
>use the same texture pointer.

That's correct. You can have:

  TriMesh1 --> Shader1 ----
                           \
                            --> Texture
                           /
  TriMesh2 --> Shader2 ----

So two QD3D shaders, referencing one QD3D texture object, which will
reference one OpenGL texture object, which will correspond to one chunk
of VRAM.


-dair
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