Re: drawing elements: why only one index buffer

fungus wrote:
> 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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Thanks, that is the answer I was looking for.
~S