Re: Disk sharing of textures

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

Jose' Cruanyes wrote:
> Il giorno 20/feb/07, alle ore 17:45, Jose' Cruanyes ha scritto:
> 
>> Il giorno 18/feb/07, alle ore 15:35, Roger Holmes ha scritto:
>>
>>>  On disc, the problem is that every object has its
>>> own copy of the textures, even if in memory they are shared
>>> between hundreds of objects.
>>>
>> this is surely a bug in the 3dmf writing routines...
>> it should not be this way... I'll take a look shortly
>>
> 
> It seems that the shaders are shared but the textures not... never  
> noticed because I create a shared as soon the texture is loaded...

I don't understand... under what circumstances are textures not shared? 
  I made an example where a texture is used by several TriMeshes, and I 
can save it as 3DMF and see that the textures are still shared.
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