As I understand it, sharing geometries will reduce memory use in both main memory and the video card. So when applicable that is a good way to save memory and still have a large scene. However, this would need to be confirmed by A J3D team member. I may be that it only saves memory on the video card if the scene was "compiled".
In modeling, reusing the geoemetry or part of a model is called "instancing". Andreas Jerke wrote: >Hi, > >will using the same geometry object along several shape3d nodes >reduce the memory usage IN THE VIDEO CARD memory >or only the SYSTEM memory used by J3D for java objects ? > > > Shawn Kendall Java3D Game Tech Developer =========================================================================== 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".
