Re: automatic triangle strip generation

[Roger H. <rog...@mi...>]

On 22 Feb, 2007, at 20:47, James Walker wrote:

> The new OpenGL renderer caches a triangle strip the first time it
> renders a TriMesh.  There can be a drawback, which is that if a lot of
> geometry gets rendered for the first time at the same time, there  
> can be
> a noticeable pause while the triangle strips are being computed.  So,
> I'm thinking of adding an option to turn off the automatic strip
> computation, probably using an object property attached to the  
> renderer
> object.  The renderer would still look for the triangle strip data, it
> just wouldn't compute a strip if one is missing.  Any opinion as to
> which behavior should be the default?

I think by default it should calculate and cache, just like the  
interactive
renderer.

Roger.