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README for NvTriStrip, library version
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To use:
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-#include "NvTriStrip.h"
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-put nvtristrip.lib in your library path (the pragma in nvtristrip.h will automatically look for the library).
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Check out NvTriStrip.h for the interface.
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See the StripTest source code (in function LoadXFileStripped) for an example of using the library.
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Features:
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-generates strips from arbitrary geometry.
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-flexibly optimizes for post TnL vertex caches (16 on GeForce1/2, 24 on GeForce3).
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-can stitch together strips using degenerate triangles, or not.
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-can output lists instead of strips.
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-can optionally throw excessively small strips into a list instead.
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-can remap indices to improve spatial locality in your vertex buffers.
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On cache sizes:
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Note that it's better to UNDERESTIMATE the cache size instead of OVERESTIMATING.
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So, if you're targetting GeForce1, 2, and 3, be conservative and use the GeForce1_2 cache
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size, NOT the GeForce3 cache size.
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This will make sure you don't "blow" the cache of the GeForce1 and 2.
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Also note that the cache size you specify is the "actual" cache size, not the "effective"
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cache size you may of heard about. This is 16 for GeForce1 and 2, and 24 for GeForce3.
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Credit goes to Curtis Beeson and Joe Demers for the basis for this stripifier and to Jason Regier and
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Jon Stone at Blizzard for providing a much cleaner version of CreateStrips().
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Questions/comments email cem@nvidia.com
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