Triangles rendering speed

[yaro_dup1]

Hi,

I wanna create a cylinder, but wchich method will be faster using gluCylinder or rendering about 500 triangles?

[Arath]

It depends if your cylinder is going to be drawn many times whitout parameters (size, height, radius) changing, if so create a display list or vertex array with your cylinder then draw it with the appropriate function. Else call gluCylinder but I doubt this function is quick.

Hope it helps,
Arath