Terrain: Triangles or TriangleStrips?

LPVOID_CH · 2008-05-10T01:19:25

hi all i'm improving my terrain engine. i know that triangle strips are handled faster on the gpu than triangle lists. but i'cant represent my terrain with only one indexbuffer, if i use triangle strips. for each terrain-row i need a index buffer and have to call this buffer for each row in my programm. with triangle lists i can put all in one vertex/indexbuffer and call this buffer once for the terrain. does anyone has experience which of them could be faster? i couldn't find anything about that in the web. thanks

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Started by LPVOID_CH May 07, 2008 03:48 AM

19 comments, last by crowley9 15 years, 11 months ago

crowley9

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May 10, 2008 01:19 AM

I think that the confusion here is due to the fact that some people are talking about indexed triangle strips, and others are talking about NON-indexed triangle strips. The 1.0 limit applies for the latter, not the former.