This is a question for the Sun engineers. 1. If you have two shapes which have different appearences, but the same material, do you sort and then only send the material once if possible? 2. Do you sort materials, etc based on their values or the actual instantiation of the Java object? So if I have two materials which are equivelent, but 2 different instantiations of materials do I still get the optimization? 3. I was thinking of writing a caching system where after I build something like a Material I would say Material m = checkMaterial(mm), whereupon it would look in a cache of already instantiated materials and if it finds a match it would return the original and discard the new one. Do you see any issues with this approach? I am planning on doing this for renderingAttributes, transparencyAttributes, coloringAttributes, polygonAttributes and materials. I already cache textures. Dave Yazel =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
