Hiya! Im working on a project which I hope I can someday call a game engine. Ive just gotten, well most of the framework done such as the system code, utilities and math lib etc done so now I want to start on the renderer. In my basic design, the renderer will be a collection of code such as wrappers for opengl, cg shader class, lighting class, shadowing, decals, basically anything thing that makes polygons look good. This all will be build into a dll and interfaced by a single 'renderengine' class. The terrain engine, model and animation engine etc will all of course use the render core but will be seperate from the dll. What Im having a bit of a hard time with is this: should I create a common triangle and mesh class and derived from these or should I just create functions in the model classes which have methods for doing whatever I need? I personally think that I should create a common mesh class and derive both models and the terrain patches from it. Alrighty, well thats the basic design of my engine... all low level code that has to do with shading, clipping, splitting, texturing, etc a polygon, is part of the render engine. How does that sound?

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Darnit. Forum logged me out again. That should have been:

Model+-NullModel+-Sprite`-Mesh  +-StaticMesh  | +-SimpleMesh  | +-BspMesh  | +-PortalMesh  | `-OctreeMesh  `-DynamicMesh    +-InterpolatedMesh    +-SkeletalMesh    `-RagdollMesh