Re: drawing elements: why only one index buffer

On May 21, 4:38 am, sheam <she...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Is there not a way to have a index buffer
> for verts-coords, and normals seperately?
>

No.

> Is there a technical reason? (i.e, h/w limations)
>

The hardware doesn't do it because it isn't required
by the API. :-)

And... having each vertex as a separate packet of
data optimizes much better inside the chip (you
should also interleave the arrays if you want best
performance).


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