Cloning

OpenGL OpenGL: Basic Coding
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The reusability of vertex data, cloning if you will, is what I am after.

Given: Vertex Data with positions and normals of one 3d object ( say a cube).
How do I render in 1 frame:
3 cubes, in 3 different positions, in 3 different colors.

I am writing for the Mac iPad and objects will be rendered with ES2.

Thanks
Rick Tschudin

2

Draw the same cube with different modelview matrices and different colors.

Thought, as you use ES2, you have to do it all in a shader.

3

If instead of 3 you want to draw hundreds of copies of a mesh you may want to look into instancing, i.e. glDrawElementsInstanced and friends.
It probably makes more sense to ask about that on a ES forum though, as I don’t know what API ES supports in that area.