Re: Sharing geometry

On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 08:56 PM, Brent Gulanowski wrote:
> On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 01:34  PM, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:
>> The original design philosophy of the Shape aggregation was to be able 
>> to share geometry objects. But I believe that there is a bug which 
>> prevents it from working when you use view-frustum culling. I'd have 
>> to double check that.
>
> The main reason that I wasn't sure is that the geometry classes include 
> a shape reference. But they can only remember one. So what if you have 
> 100 shapes sharing the same geometry?

Consider this as a bug. The reason for this is that currently the shape 
has a bounding volume which gets updated whenever the geometry changes. 
So the geometry triggers its shape to update the volume if needed. I 
will fix this ASAP.

-Phil
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