Hi all, I was wondering if I have a game maze will opengl draw all the triangles out that aren''t in view of the viewing window or will it know not to draw these automaticallyl. I''ve heard of bounding box methods where it only draws object that are in view which is more efficient. But does anybody know what the default is? I''m making a game and I''m wondering if the whole map is loaded in or does just parts of it that are needed are displayed. -Kenjin

OpenGL does automatically cull objects outside of the view frustum, however you can speed it up a lot by using a method of partitioning your world geometry, and culling large amounts of geometry on your cpu.

Octrees and Quadtrees are VERY efficient when it comes to this, BSP trees do a good job as well.

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well.. opengl at least wont/cant write the result to the frame buffer, but it will check/cull/clip every single triangle which obviously is a lot slower than a short test to remove hundreds/thousands of triangles yourself.