D3D7 -> WineD3D, 2nd attempt

[Christian Costa]

Lionel Ulmer wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:52:37PM +0100, Christian Costa wrote:
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>>Since vertex buffer support is a hack, I think  you can use standard 
>>wined3d drawing primitives for the moment.
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>Well, vertex buffer support is only a hack in the case of 'pre-transformed'
>buffers (i.e. if the application transforms the buffer without rendering it
>and later on renders the transformed buffers).
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>The only application I know of which uses this feature is MI4 (EMI).
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I was talking about this hack (that you did some years ago :-) in the 
sense that
full support for old d3d vertex buffers is more complicated due to 
ProcessVertices.

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>A part from that, where is the hack located :-) ?
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>         Lionel
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>PS: in theory, vertex buffers should be stored 'on card' using OpenGL
>    extensions (for which I forgot the names)
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