why drawIndexedTriangleList ?

[TYLENOL]

Hi niko and IrrLicht fans (like me)!

Maybe I miss the point but, why "drawIndexedTriangleList" function have so many parameters (vertices, vertexCount, indexList, triangleCount) if it is called (almost) always the same way:

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scene::IMeshBuffer* mb = m->getMeshBuffer(i);
...
driver->drawIndexedTriangleList((video::S3DVertex*)mb->getVertices(), mb->getVertexCount(), mb->getIndices(), mb->getIndexCount()/ 3);

I think that maybe the driver could have a drawMeshBuffer(IMeshBuffer) and the IMeshBuffer a "mode" attribute telling how the vertices are organized (strips, fans, plain indexes), then things like opengl's VBO could be implemented more easily.

tkz
and sorry my bad english.

[niko]

Hm, that's right. A good idea would be for example to implement the drawing in the base class (Null-device), calling the drawing methods. Already on my Todo-list.