To give you some more choices of libraries out there: Polyboolean. I never tried this one, but it looks promising: http://www.complex-a5.ru/polyboolean/index.html General Polygon Clipper. This one works very well in practice and does triangulation as well as clipping and holes holes: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/alan/software/ My personal recommendation: Use the tesselation from the GLU (OpenGL Utility Library). The … Read more
In the most general sense, no. OpenGL and Direct3D only allow one index per vertex; the index fetches from each stream of vertex data. Therefore, every unique combination of components must have its own separate index. So if you have a cube, where each face has its own normal, you will need to replicate the … Read more
What is it about shaders that even potentially makes if statements performance problems? It has to do with how shaders get executed and where GPUs get their massive computing performance from. Separate shader invocations are usually executed in parallel, executing the same instructions at the same time. They’re simply executing them on different sets of … Read more
Patience, technical skill and endurance. First point is that a DX Demo is primarily a teaching aid so it’s done for clarity not speed of execution. It’s a pretty big subject to condense but games development is primarily about understanding your data and your execution paths to an almost pathological degree. Your code is designed … Read more