Material feature request, or is it already possible?

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Sun May 29, 2011 1:21 pm

I want to have one SMaterial structure for a whole bunch of different objects and have all of them use the same one without copying. I think it would be much more efficient if Irrlicht's material system was upgraded to use pointers to materials instead of each meshbuffer owning a copy.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sun May 29, 2011 1:26 pm

Since too many mesh buffers are problematic anyway, I doubt that you will really recognize the memory consumption of materials.

REDDemon · Post by **REDDemon** » Mon May 30, 2011 5:58 am

I tried doing something similiar and abandoned that:
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1) call the material

driver-> setMaterial

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and then draws every mesh buffer after that.
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You get performance increase only with many meshbuffers(not to much gain), but at this point the best worth is mesh batching. If you really need it you can do it on your own as described above.