Re: Indexed Geoset size limitation..

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From: Marcin Romaszewicz (marcin++at++sgi.com)
Date: 04/10/2000 14:09:22

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Bryan Housel wrote:

> Not sure if this has been asked before, but...
>
> Since geosets use ushort* for the index lists, this limits the number of
> verticies, colors, normals, texcoords in an indexed geoset to 65536...
>
>
> Are there plans to increase this limit in a future release of
> Performer?..
>

This has not come up before. Most of the performer team is at ITEC this
week, but I'll bring this up when they get back.

>
> To get around this limit I am assuming that we can:
> 1. split the geoset into two geosets..
> 2. build the attribute list myself, creating a non-indexed GeoSet..
>

If you can, use the non-indexed representation, it will be a little
faster, since you eliminate an extra level of indirection.

-- Marcin

> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>
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