Re: Memory leak in E3AttributeSet_Inherit. + New renderer

[James W. W. <os...@jw...>]

On Jan 31, 2007, at 6:21 AM, Roger Holmes wrote:

> I presume the new renderer will be faster than the interactive one,
> which will be wonderful.

That's the goal, though I am not far enough along to do benchmarks.   
I'm also finding a few bugs in the course of going through every  
aspect of rendering.

> I also presume there will be some incompatibilities. Whilst doing the
> changes, can you try
> to make a list of what we should look out for, to be published in the
> release note maybe.

OK... the only thing I can think of right now is that there won't be  
a distinction between the "both" and "flip" backfacing styles,  
they'll both just use OpenGL two-sided lighting.  However there will  
probably be some differences in what constitutes the "fast path" for  
trimeshes.

> Will we get any new facilities at all?

Depends on what you consider a new facility.  I'll probably put in a  
feature of caching a fast-path trimesh as a triangle strip.

> I hope this will not affect existing plug-in renderers.

No, I don't see why it would.