GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP is the fastest, but I don''t know how much it is faster.


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quote:Original post by Unreal
GL_TRIANGLES?GL_TRIANGLE_FAN?GL_TRIANGE_STRIP? or GL_POLYGON?
I hear that GL_TRIANGLES is better for speed! if is this true how much faster than GL_POLYGON is it? 1%?5%? or more?
thank you

might be confusing something because i never ever felt any need to use polygon, but i think it is drawing only ONE polygon. you would have to start over and over for every single polygon and if they are triangles thats just pointless and inefficient. if clipping is causing it to have more than 3 vertices you should just split it until its triangles again.

i dont think hardware is supporting much more than triangles and maybe lines anyway, so if you send a polygon it will have to first be split into triangles. for a really complex scene i might even guess something closer to 50% or more (assuming youre not killing performance by using immediate mode and use indexed primitives).