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How can I efficiently store Vertex data in C#/XNA?
I am creating a terrain system using voxels in a somewhat minecraft-like style and I was wondering if there was anything I could do to increase the number of vertices I am able to store (and therefore ...
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XNA Game arhitecture, sharing vertices between objects
I'm practicing primitives rendering in XNA and I want to create something like pipe or tunnel.
I have base class called PipeSegment from which I inherit classes like RotatingSegment and NormalSegment ...
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How to Bind Multiple Shapes/Models to One Vertex Buffer?
If I have two Vertex Arrays, one for Square, and one for Triangle; what is the best way to bind them to the VertexBuffer?
What are the patterns used to write multiple vertices to the VertexBuffer? ...
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Per Instance Textures, and Vertex And Pixel Shaders?
How do you implement per instance textures, vertex shaders, and pixel shaders?
Given:
1. Two different model templates in Vertex Buffer, Square & Triangle
2. Instance Buffer with [n] instances of ...
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DirectX / Instance Buffer - How To Use Instance Buffers To Enable Reuse of VertexBuffer Data?
I created a simple Model framework in C++ 11 so that the same model can be rendered in different parts of a scene.
What I am trying to figure out is how to reference VertexBuffer data already "set" ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0 - How to batch draw particles that have unique translations, rotations, scales, and alphas?
I've combined all of my vertex data for many particles into a single array. How would I batch draw all of those particles in a manner that preserves their unique translations?
Any code examples ...
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Vertex data split into separate buffers or one one structure?
Is it better to have all vertex data in one structure like this:
class MyVertex
{
int x,y,z;
int u,v;
int normalx, normaly, normalz;
}
Or to have each component ...
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How to transform a subset of a vertex in a vertex buffer?
float linePos[6]={0.0f,5.0f,0.0f,0.0f,30.0f,0.0f};
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glGenBuffers(1, &buffer);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer);
glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(float)*3*2, linePos, ...
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Triangle Strips of Tetraheron
I am confused about the triangle strip representation of closed mesh .The vertex buffer for triangle strip representation of the a figure is shown below:
A(0,1) B(0,0) C(1,1) D(1,0)E(2,1)
vertex ...
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Lighting with VBO
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I'm using a Java JOGL wrapper called processing.org and I have coded some environment on it and I'm quite proud of it even if it has some library stuff that I didn't know anything about it ...
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Should I use a VBO if the vertex data changes from time to time?
If I have a very large number of vertices, but they're static for about 70% - 80% of their life time, should I use a VBO for them? If so, what usage should I specify? This doesn't sound like a case ...
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What is a better abstraction layer for D3D9 and OpenGL vertex data management?
My rendering code has always been OpenGL. I now need to support a platform that does not have OpenGL, so I have to add an abstraction layer that wraps OpenGL and Direct3D 9. I will support Direct3D 11 ...
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Refactoring an immediate drawing function into VBO, access violation error
I have a MD2 model loader, I am trying to substitute its immediate drawing function with a Vertex Buffer Object one....
I am getting a really annoying access violation reading error and I can't ...
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how can I specify interleaved vertex attributes and vertex indices
I'm writing a generic ShaderProgram class that compiles a set of Shader objects, passes args to the shader (like vertex position, vertex normal, tex coords etc), then links the shader components into ...
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vertex array with smoothness
I'm using vertex array to draw 2d geometry,
but I can't achieve smoothness.
This is the code I'm using:
glEnableClientState(GL_COLOR_ARRAY);
glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
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Using index arrays with OpenGL VBOs
I've recently started reading about VBOs.
If, for example, I want to draw a cube using VBOs, can I use one VBO to hold the coordinates for the 8 vertices, and another one as an index array, to ...
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Generating geometry when using VBO
Currently I am working on a project in which I generate geometry based on the players movement. A glorified very long trail, composed of quads.
I am doing this by storing a STD::Vector, and removing ...
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How to create per-vertex normals when reusing vertex data?
I am displaying a cube using a vertex buffer object (gl.ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER). This allows me to specify vertex indicies, rather than having duplicate vertexes. In the case of displaying a simple ...
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Beginner question about vertex arrays in OpenGL
Is there a special order in which vertices are entered into a vertex array? Currently I'm drawing single textures like this:
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texName);
glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, 0, ...
