Hi, I have a little question, about how i should code my renderer So far I have created independant classes to hold data and so on and now i am at the point where i need to start coding the renderer I thought about 2 ways to do it 1. create a class CRenderer which holds functions to which i pass for example a list of polygons clipped against the frustrum, passed through a octree and sorted by texture and let the renderer do all the work -inlining of small often used functions 2. create a namespace and inline all the small functions to avoid function call overhead 1. & 2. contain functions like this to reduce the amount of code you have to write [SRC] inline void AlphaBlend(BOOL bBlend) { if( bBlend == TRUE ) { glEnable(GL_BLEND); glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA,GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA); } else glDisable(GL_BLEND); }; [/SRC] yes i know both ways are very similar, on the second way i just have a few main render functions that execute the inlined subfunctions in order Which ways do you think is best?

my engine used SDL SDL_net OpenGL and OpenAL, so its more or less cross platform, although i develop it for windows

does using a class result in a performance decrease? a little one?

using a namespace to encapsulate all the render functions gives me the possibility to pass pointers of them to a dll so modders can use them to do some custom rendering stuff