2009/7/14 Tristam MacDonald <[email protected]>: > > The > glu tesselation functions were designed long before the number of draw calls was ever considered as a potential bottleneck, and at that time vertex processing was the bottleneck. Unfortunately, > the entire of glu has been deprecated, so it is unlikely to receive any > improvements in this area. > The alternative, I am afraid, is to roll your own tessellation functions. > This isn't actually that hard, and has the benefit that you will have > complete control of the output, but it will be a bit of work.
One unfortunate disadvantage of this approach is that it requires either Python code for tessellation (quite slow) or packaging C libraries with your code (and we all know the problems that can arise from that). The advantage of GLU is that, while it's officially deprecated, it is widely available, and generally performs as advertised. If you can make GLU do what you want to do, it's a quick and easy route to some quite well optimized behaviour on a wide variety of systems. Martin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
