[quartz]

Greetings,

I was wondering if anyone has used Vertex Arrays with D/Dererlict yet. I am attempting to use them but no success yet. I can use immediate mode and Displaylists fine but converting it to VAs doesn't seem to work.

I made sure when I allocated arrays as GLunit* and not GLuint[] such that it works with the OpenGL C API.

Of course i could have something wrong with how i am filling the arrays.

Any suggestions? I appreciate it.

[jaak]

The following worked for me:

[quartz]

Thanks jaak,

Oops, I went back and analyzed my code further and found my mistakes. I was defining my vertex coords wrong. However, your suggestion seems like a better way of passing arrays to C than declaring pointers. I do want the bounds checking feature of D but i didn't realize you could use the .ptr property like that. I guess the .ptr property skips over the hidden array info stuff.

Now my trival game runs about several times faster with VertexArrays!, Yea! I ported an earlier version of mine, done in java, to D in order to evaluate the language and I am very, very impressed with D. I will be posting my D version tonight some time but here is the current site for it. I admit it is a silly game, but fun to write and play:
http://distanthumans.info/programming/java/spout.php

Seeing as D is an excellent language (what C++ should have been long ago), I have stopped mid stream with my Bosconian clone and will now begin porting it over. I may look into clayasaurus's engine after a while; I'm not that much into to lua though, i much prefer python.

Thanks for the info and suggestion.

-Will.