Interleaved Vertex Attribs?

[chg]

Not sure if I might check out Babylon.js more in the future or not, but I'm kind of curious I guess, does Babylon.js interleave vertex attributes on meshes automatically?

I'll admit I don't know the cost of not interleaving attributes on modern hardware, and imagine it's not that bad even on mobile; but it just seems shocking and lazy to me for JS engines not to do things the right way™ for reasons I don't understand (Javascript elegance?)

Note: italics and TM symbol are my way of trying to acknowledge that I'm probably being stupid with this, ie. plz don't take this too seriously

[jerome]

I guess you are talking about the (VNCVNC...) approach here : https://www.opengl.org/wiki/Vertex_Specification_Best_Practices

 

Unless it's done at some higher level in the code, I'm not sure it is the way BJS uses : https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/blob/master/src/babylon.engine.ts#L1027

 

DK would probably answer better than me to this question.

[chg]

Thanks Jerome! Looking at that code it looks like it might be supported

 

                var offset = 0;                for (var index = 0; index < vertexDeclaration.length; index++) {                    var order = effect.getAttributeLocation(index);                    if (order >= 0) {                        this._gl.vertexAttribPointer(order, vertexDeclaration[index], this._gl.FLOAT, false, vertexStrideSize, offset);                    }                    offset += vertexDeclaration[index] * 4;

[Wingnut]

@chg - you're bored, aren't you? 

 

(just kidding around). 

 

But also, the primary authors of the BabylonJS framework... are excellently kind.  So, grab that engine.js and hack that puppy until it does what you want, and even put your name on it afterwards!  (Even though you'll know you owe some creds.)  heh

 

The point is...  its open source, its JS, just whack it into doing whatever you want it to do.    That's the delicious part.  And we got cool collab in our forum, too, eh? 

 

"Not sure if I might check out Babylon.js more in the future or not"

 

@chg - help a few forum users... by fixing their playgrounds, and in 90 days... we'll own you.    You'll be so addicted to BJS that you'll never look back.  I think you'd make an excellent framework hacker/devver, chg.  I think you should just stick around with us, and help us torture stuff and blow stuff up.