i am trying to build a small scale 3d editor that can basically allow me to edit my 3D meshs. at the moment i am trying to figure out how to make multiple points.. 3 , 100, 1'000'000... whatever... im sure there is a simple solution to my problem.. but it is currently eluding me. my problem is that i want to individually handle each point in the 3d mesh as a seperate point.. name, position... whatever else it basically needs to be its own piece of data.. so i thought i would try an array.. but then an array is limited and if you put a huge number for the array.. it will consume a proportionately larger amount of memory than neccisarily required.. even then it cannot be exceeded so does anyone know how ,while my program is running, i can create new ,basically , new pieces of data that are seperate from others also i do not want to use code stating that there are X number of total points and the positions are... ( .. ) perhaps someone knows how i might not exactly solve the problem but how i might best handle it for now? im quite confudled on this.. help is much appreciated

In computing science an array that can be resized dynamically on demand is usually called a vector. C++ provides an excellent implementation through the STL. You can dump stuff in it and its never full before your memory is.

Greetz,

Illco

i havent yet tryed out your suggestion but i have just found some info on what you said and it looks like i can use it perfectly to what i want.. thank you very much :)

this is really off topic, i'm sorry ..
congratulations on choosing your topic title :) had to laugh quite a bit.