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Re: Question about DAT rendering
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Date: 
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:07:54 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kenneth C. Dyke wrote:

> I've been toying around with a visual DAT editor/viewer for Mac OS X,
> and wanted to know if there is supposed to be any kind of guaranteed
> rendering order on commands within a DAT file.

Err, not really.

> Obviously paying attention to STEP commands would be important, but is
> there anything beyond that?  I've noticed that other OpenGL based
> renderers seem to reorder things to get transparent objects to draw in a
> reasonable way, so I'm hoping that I can reorder things in the way
> that'll get me the most performance through GL.

Nod, you should be able to reorder without running into trouble.

Steve



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I've been toying around with a visual DAT editor/viewer for Mac OS X, and wanted to know if there is supposed to be any kind of guaranteed rendering order on commands within a DAT file. Obviously paying attention to STEP commands would be important, (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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