Creating quad from poitns using geometry Shader

Hi,

I need to draw allot of 2D quads with textures. therefore i decided to use VBO and shaders.

For each quad i’m sending

  • 4 vertexes - the same value (2[xy] * 4[vertexes]) (The vertex shader will transform the vertexs using the vertex attribute)
  • Color (4[rgba] * 4[vertexes])
  • textures coord (2[xy] * 4[vertexes]
  • Vertex Attribute - factors for the shader to expand the points to quad (2[xy] * 4[vertexes])

I made it happened and its works great. but there are allot of repeating data that i want to skip like color for each vertex, or the same 4 vertexes for quad.

Now what i’m trying to do is to use geometry shader to creates this quads. Sending him single points and letting him create a triangle strip which will look like (“Quad”).
This way i will save for each quad

  • 3 vertexs (3[xy] floats - Sending only one)
  • 3 colors (3[rgba] * 3[vertexes] - Sending only one)

made it happen as well - works great - although same performances. but less memory which is good for me.

long story, i’m sorry :sleeping:

and now the problem:

How can i send for single point 4[xy] (8 floats) texture coordinates and 4[xy] (8 floats) vertex attributes?
is it possible ?

For the attributes i made 4 arrays of each factor (topleft, topright, bottomright, bottomleft) but i guess there is an easier way.

thanks.