Hello Franclin,
But for shape drawable, geometry information is hidden to clients (and
I don't know why but I suspect performance issues) that is why you need
to use shaders for them.
Well actually the Shape / ShapeDrawable classes were originally designed
as simple debugging tools, so little thought was put into their design.
They're just implemented as simple display lists with little
customization possible, and no access to the internals. If you want to
do any serious geometry with any acceptable level of control, you'll
want to use osg::Geometry and define the vertices yourself.
One side of the coin:
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I had suggested to Robert that I could reimplement the Shape /
ShapeDrawable classes using an underlying osg::Geometry, so that they
would behave as they do now but offer more control if needed (probably
as it should have been done right from the beginning). He was open to
this, but I haven't had time to do it yet.
The other side of the coin:
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Do you know how easy it is to download Blender, create a sphere, save it
and load it up with OSG? And when you do, it will be a full-fledged
osg::Geometry and you will have total control over it. If you use the
osg exporter for Blender you can even edit the .osg file and make sure
it's structured exactly how you want it.
I generally favor using data for everything (as much as possible /
reasonable) as opposed to hard-coding things, since later it's much
easier to replace the sphere model by something else if it's a model
file than if I have to open the project, find the relevant code, change
it, compile it, test it...
This is just my opinion though, and the Shape / ShapeDrawable classes
still have uses, which is why I still want to do what I mentioned above,
someday. :-)
Hope this clears things up.
J-S
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