Rendering Static Geometry

Radan · 2003-10-04T18:46:11

I read in an article that Static Vertex buffers are faster for rendering Static geometry(duhhh... hence the name). So I thought to render static geometry like this: Fill ONE Vertex buffer with all the static vertices and render using triangles indexing into that massive VBuffer. But, when rendering with indexed triangles aren''t the vertices supposed to get all processed first and then rendered used when are being indexed. My question is how often will the vertices in that Vertex Buffer get proccessed, cause if all the vertices get proccessed every frame it will be very slow? Sorry if its a beginner question or poorly worded, but I am a bit tired.

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by Radan August 13, 2003 02:56 PM

11 comments, last by Radan 20 years, 6 months ago

Anonymous

October 04, 2003 02:27 PM

bump

sorry for bumping an old thread but I''d appriciate more info

Lupin

122

October 04, 2003 04:50 PM

I think I''m setting the correct values for my DrawIndexedPrimitive function - i get no errors though. But I''m wondering what I should pass as minIndex? Is it the first vertex used by my app or what? I tried to pass the first vertex and I always get "[2500] Direct3D8: (ERROR) :Stream 0 does not have required number of vertices"

don

431

October 04, 2003 06:46 PM

You would be well served by reading the following:

http://www.tomsdxfaq.blogspot.com/2002_05_01_tomsdxfaq_archive.html#77028718

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