Hi, I am currently modding the Torque engine, and discovered that they used an OLD, aparently undocumented vertex buffer extension, I am trying to bring the code up to date and converting from this extension to ARB_vertex_buffer_object, however althought not quite cryptic, the old extension is different in parts, and it would really help me if I could get my hands on the extension documentation. I tried google, with no luck (seems like there is a project in sourceforge that uses the extension but nothing more), anyway, here are the functions I am looking documentation for: glAvailableVertexBufferEXT glAllocateVertexBufferEXT glLockVertexBufferEXT glUnlockVertexBufferEXT glSetVertexBufferEXT glOffsetVertexBufferEXT glFillVertexBufferEXT glFreeVertexBufferEXT Thanks!

Quote:glLockVertexBufferEXT
glUnlockVertexBufferEXT

GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array This extension is infamously known to have been used in some ID Software game, but never finalized. So you often see some vertex array code pepperred whith this extension.

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glAvailableVertexBufferEXT
glAllocateVertexBufferEXT
glSetVertexBufferEXT
glOffsetVertexBufferEXT
glFillVertexBufferEXT
glFreeVertexBufferEXT

I've got no idea where this EXT extension could be described. It looks like some alternate vertex array style API.

I can guess you can translate:
glAvailableVertexBufferEXT => glIsBufferARB
glAllocateVertexBufferEXT => glGenBuffersARB
glFillVertexBufferEXT => glBufferDataARB
glFreeVertexBufferEXT => glDeleteBuffersARB

Thanks, I'll look it up, I cross posted to the GG forums and apparently the extension is implemented on the OpenGL to D3D renderer, which I believe has its roots on ID Software. Seems like the name of the extension (not sure if official) is EXT_vertex_buffer.

Quote:Original post by Zongo
I've got no idea where this EXT extension could be described. It looks like some alternate vertex array style API.

I can guess you can translate:
glAvailableVertexBufferEXT => glIsBufferARB
glAllocateVertexBufferEXT => glGenBuffersARB
glFillVertexBufferEXT => glBufferDataARB
glFreeVertexBufferEXT => glDeleteBuffersARB

Thats losely what I am doing except glAvailableVertexBufferEXT purpose is to tell if there is space in memory left for a buffer, something ARB_vertex_buffer_object doesn't require.

Quote:Original post by Promit
This isn't CVA. If you actually click through to your link, you'll observe that the functions CVA introduces are LockArraysEXT and UnlockArraysEXT.

My bad. I thought I recognized these two calls but you're right, it's not CVA and probably all the functions come from one extension not referenced in the OpenGL registry.