Hello, I am working hard at the OpenGL 3.2 core profile and try to write a function like glutSolidSphere. I put the vertex coordinates, normals and texture coordinates in different VBOs and draw all the triangles using glDrawElements. However, there is a problem for texture mapping. In common, sphere surface is cut into several slices using parallel planes. And each slice is approximated using a circular triangle strip. For example, i1_ i2_ i3_ i4 ..... in _ i1 .|\ | \ | \ |..........| \ | j1_\j2_\j3_\j4 ..... jn _\j1 And I allocate the texture coordinates as followed i1....... ...... in i1 (0,vi) ...... (un,vi) (1,vi) j1 ....... jn j1 (0,vj) ...... (un,vj) (1,vi) Among these vertexes, i1 and j1 are used when draw the first and last triangle. For the first triangle, their texture coordinate should be (0,vi) and (0,vj) and for the last one they should be (1,vi) and (1,vj). If I don't want to add two reduplicate vertexes and use the same indices for two triangles, one glDrawElement call could not draw them. Are there some smart ways to deal with this problem? Thank you!

Actually, as you mentioned I just draw plain triangles with duplicate vertexes. Thanks for your quick reply, karwosts.