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small tut here http://kickingdragon.com/2006/07/25/ope ... -tutorial/

which shows just how

http://www.songho.ca/opengl/gl_vbo.html

i didnt know what it was so i looked. apparently there's PBO as well ?

yap

I have looked at fbo, vbo etc a little lately trying to learn about shadowmapping. I get a little overwhelmed thinking about each dynamic light source creating a shadow on all things

I know DarkPlaces uses these extensively.

thats one thing i actually had going through the ol bean.

mh used player position to calculate the vert data for bumpmapping
cutting calculations down to allmost nothing

that same code could probably be used for shadowmapping

also i had sortof a wild idea based on some code mh made for parsing the color out of textures to create underwater fog.

imagine this instead of using those colors for fog we use them for light ?!?

DirectQ uses VBOs (the D3D equivalent) for everything and RMQ makes extensive use of VBOs too. RMQ also used PBOs for lightmap updates for a long time, but I ended up removing the code as it was adding an extra layer of complexity for what amounted to zero performance gain.