Triangles vs. triangle lists vs. triangle strips?
by Andy · in Artist Corner · 03/09/2008 (10:39 am) · 8 replies
I've noticed a *huge* in-engine performance benefit for most models (1000+ polys) when using the "triangle list" selection of the Blender exporter.
Whatever it's doing, it's doing it right. I have seen this across platforms (Win32, OSX, Linux), and on older graphics (Radeon 9600 & nvidia 5000-series) hardware.
By "performance benefits" I mean I still get great framerates. In the other cases (triangles or triangle strips), I take a huge hit in framerate (200+ FPS down to 10 FPS) with only one triangle or triangle-strip model loaded into the engine.
Has anyone else noticed this difference?
Are there any circumstances where I'd actually want to export as triangles or triangle-strips rather than triangle lists?
Whatever it's doing, it's doing it right. I have seen this across platforms (Win32, OSX, Linux), and on older graphics (Radeon 9600 & nvidia 5000-series) hardware.
By "performance benefits" I mean I still get great framerates. In the other cases (triangles or triangle strips), I take a huge hit in framerate (200+ FPS down to 10 FPS) with only one triangle or triangle-strip model loaded into the engine.
Has anyone else noticed this difference?
Are there any circumstances where I'd actually want to export as triangles or triangle-strips rather than triangle lists?
#3
cause torque to lockup on loading missions for me.
03/09/2008 (4:18 pm)
Setting $pref::TS::UseOneStrip = "1"cause torque to lockup on loading missions for me.
#5
03/09/2008 (4:21 pm)
I turned off useonestrip, and turned on the usetriangles, same thing. maybe i'm doing it wrong. perhaps one of my models is causing issues.
#6
I don't use the blender exporter, i know that the Lightwave exporter i use doesn't support triangle optimizations at all. Was hoping this would provide a speed boost, but there doesn't appear to be any change in frame rate.
03/09/2008 (4:25 pm)
Yeah, was my player model causing issues.I don't use the blender exporter, i know that the Lightwave exporter i use doesn't support triangle optimizations at all. Was hoping this would provide a speed boost, but there doesn't appear to be any change in frame rate.
#8
i've checked with TSTPro.
I'd love to get the source code for the exporter so i could improve it.
03/09/2008 (4:39 pm)
It's not. :( i've checked with TSTPro.
I'd love to get the source code for the exporter so i could improve it.
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