[PD] Enclosed shapes with "polygon" in Gem

[IOhannes zmoelnig]

B. Bogart wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Before Chris's Vertex Array stuff is done, does anyone have any tricks for
> creating enclosed shapes using polygon? I'd like to create a cube that I can
> move the corner point without creating holes between the polygons. Obviously
> this just means that some of the polys have common vertecies, but before I
> get to it has anyone made an abstraction/patch that takes care of managing
> the shared vertecies?

you could use the openGL-wrapping stuff to have full control over each 
vertex for now (of course chris's array stuff would be more effective)


> It would be nice to be able to do more than cubes obviously... Is the vertex
> array stuff going to be in .88 or .89?

surely not in 0.888, but since i hope this will be out soon, the vertex 
array stuff might appear in the CVS in near future... (depends on chris 
of course)


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IOhannes