Re: GL display lists in Performer
Kowsik Guruswamy (giraffe.asd.sgi.com!sgihub.corp.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!cory.portal.com!buggy.coKowsik Guruswamy)
Wed, 8 Nov 1995 16:14:45 -0800
On Nov 7, 7:32pm, Simon Bennett wrote:
> Subject: Re: GL display lists in Performer
> On Fri, 3 Nov 1995 tidrowd++at++cc.tacom.army.mil wrote:
>
> > Does Performer use GL (OpenGL) display lists anywhere in its
internals?
> > Recently somebody told me that this is the case - I had been under
the
> > impression that only pfDispLists were used, and that these aren't
GL
> > display lists. Is this guy off his rocker???
>
> Read the pfCull manpage. It may have the information you're looking for.
>
> pfDispLists *are not* the same as GL display lists. However there exists
> pfDrawGLObj() which will draw a GL display list.
You can also set the pfGSetDrawMode to PFGS_COMPILE_GL, upon which Performer
compiles the geometry into a GL display list which is then used for rendering.
K.
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