Hi,
I wrote a landscape renderer using dynamic quadtrees. For now I use normal Vertex Arrays for each Node wich consists of 9 Vertices. Now I’m trying to improve the performance using VAR extension.
I thounght it would be a good idea to take more than just 9 vertices per call to glDrawElements but I don’t really know what VAR ist doing.
If I use a Vertex Array of 81 Vertices that lies in AGP memory but glDrawElements touches only 9 out of these 81 would all 81 be pulled by the graphics card or just 9? I could also imagine that the part of the array from the lowest to the highest index of the 9 vertices would be pulled (what would be very bad for my implementation).
Any idea what would happen ?
[This message has been edited by muhkuh (edited 04-24-2002).]