Lately I noticed there was controversy over using display lists for just a few polygons. So is the best way to design a 3D indoor world by reading from .txt files ala NeHe lesson 10? Or to use a single array holding all vertices/texture coordinates? Or maybe use many different vertex/texcoord arrays for each sector? And I''m not advanced enough to do culling yet.

i think that something has been misunderstood...

display lists are used to call objects, not single faces...

its'' useless to do a disp list on a face, because you must call it 6 times to make a cube

instead you create a disp list for a cube and call it once...

at least I think that this is the way...


you create a table and a display list associated to the table.
a chair and a disp list

and so on...
but not a disp list for each face!



i loaded objects from file
created a disp list for each object (STATIC OBJECTS!!)
and draw them when necessary

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how do you load objects from a file? with .txt like in lesson 10?

i create my own format, for example i made a flag to tell a path for a texture, a flag to tell that following 3 x N numbers are vertex coords, a flag to indicate which vertex are assigned to wich face... and so on

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