Managed DirectX® 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming

Chapter 7. Using Advanced Mesh Features

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Cloning Mesh Data

• Optimizing Mesh Data

• Simplifying Existing Meshes

• Welding Vertices in a Mesh

• Making Lots of Little Meshes Out of One Big One

• In Brief

During the course of this chapter, we will discuss the more advanced features the mesh object contains, including

• Optimizing the mesh data

• Simplifying meshes

• Creating meshes with new vertex data components

• Welding vertices together