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I never said it was a faster algorithm as far as cpu usage goes. it''s no faster that way.

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Sorry about that !
Anyway, yes it must be significantly faster to send quad strips instead of separate quads.

and, most importantly, you don''t run the risk of gettins seams in your shadow volumes, and as I said, I can render the entire shadow volume (caps and all) from the same data array. Which screams out for using VAR. :-)