Ok, I'm confused. :-)
We get accelerated multi-texturing and T/L, but the geometry is copied
over every frame, is that correct?
Charmaine Lee wrote:
> Shawn,
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> Sure you do get H/W transforms and lighting with multi-texturing.
>
> Charmaine Lee
> Java3D Engineering Team
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>> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:45:43 -0500
>> From: Shawn Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: [JAVA3D] Multi-Texturing Performance problems
>> Comments: To: David Yazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> So you are saying that, when you use multi-texturing, you no longer get
>> H/W transforms and lighting?
>>
>> Can someone on the J3D team verify this?
>> Thanks
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>> David Yazel wrote:
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>>> It's even worse than that. For every single geometry array which is in
>>> a shape which shares a multi-textured appearance... they send all the
>>> vertex, color, normal and tex coords on every frame...
>>>
>>> The "work around" I am using is to automatically merge geometry arrays
>>> into a single geometry array for each "brush", if they are within close
>>> proximity to each other. But that is a good optimization anyway. The
>>> real fix will come with 1.3, for both alpha sorting (I sure hope they
>>> let us specify that attribute by branch group) and the multi-texturing
>>> big fix.
>>>
>>> Dave Yazel
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