Hello people. I'm trying to optimize my game using vertex vertex arrays. I'm doing this in Half-Life, so I have to convert the studio model format to something I can use with vertex arrays. What I do is multiply shared vertices whenever it's necessary, and then I arrange the triangle indexes so that I can directly render them with the vertex arrays. For the duplicated vertices, I add Now, when I render the models, I transform the original number vertices, and calculate lightvalues for each vertex normal. After this is done, I arrange the lightvalues paralell to the vertex indexes, and I copy the positions of the extra vertices over from their original indexes' positions. Finally, I set the color and vertex pointers, and I render each of the meshes that have a different texture. I use a glDrawElements call for this. The problem is, that even if I cancel out vertex transformations and lightvalue calculations and only render the objects untransformed, my rendering is still a lot slower than the immediate method. I'd like to ask if anyone has a suggestion, because I'm in trouble with this. Thanks.

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What I do for each vertex is first add the ambient and shade lighting, and then add light from dynamic lights in. This is lighting. Now, after this I transform vertices by their bone matrices. I'm quite unsure wether this is possible to do using shaders, because to be honest I haven't worked with shaders yet, and I have yet to read any tutorials.

Thanks.
Andrew.