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[Murloc992]

Hello, I am writing here with a question which was haunting me lately.

I want to draw some dynamic data using a VAO, but I am not pretty sure how to do it. Doing it the regular dynamic/stream VBO way it works, but when I do it with a VAO I need to bind the buffer I want to change and while using gDebugger I found out that those binds in dynamic/stream functions are pretty expensive and gDebugger doesn't recommend using those, so I want to know how should I draw a dynamic VBOs in a VAO?

Thanks in advance!

Andrew.

[beans222]

This page should have all the information: http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Buffer_Object_Streaming
There's no way around a glBindBuffer though.

[Murloc992]

Thanks for an answer. I know how to stream the buffers with the bind. My question is about how to avoid the bind, or it is unavoidable. :?

[BornToCode]

You cannot get around the binding.

[Kaptein]

the most common way "around bind," is to put many meshes into a single VBO, and render different parts of the data using glDrawArrays ..., first_vertex, count (or elements)