Re: automatic triangle strip generation

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

Roger Holmes wrote:
> On 23 Feb, 2007, at 17:01, James W. Walker wrote:
> 
>>> I think by default it should calculate and cache, just like the
>>> interactive
>>> renderer.
>> You mean the interactive renderer should be changed to use triangle
>> strips?
> 
> No I mean the Interactive Renderer caches most objects as TriMeshes,
> and it does this by default, in fact currently there is no way to  
> turn it off.

Oh... that's a bit of a different situation.  If the IR gets, say, a 
Torus, the only alternative to turning it into a TriMesh is to skip it, 
since the renderer doesn't know how to render a Torus directly.  Whereas 
the OpenGL renderer can render a TriMesh without creating a triangle strip.
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