Hi there,
I’m creating a sphere by hand using VBOs and IBO, currently I calculate the vertex positions, normal positions and create the sphere using triangles. I did the calculation of normals for a smoothed sphere and it works perfect. I’ve tested it with some lights and it’s nice. It works like glutSolidSphere().
But now I wanna show the same sphere but in a non-smoothed way (like 3DS MAX does) I mean, using orthogonal normals in each triangle. That’s easy but the problem is that each triangle has their vertices shared with the adjacent triangles so for each vertex I need more than one normal.
The question is there’s a clever way to store the normals in the VBO?
Can someone suggest me a clever way to do that?
Thank you.