D3DXCreateTeapot and reverse engineering?

[Roderick Colenbrander]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Misha Koshelev <misha680 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 14:37 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>> IMHO, our criterion is "we only need to implement what apps really need",
>> and for the moment, that app probably could live with a stub for
>> D3DXCreateTeapot.   When we run into a complaint about
>> our lousy teapot, we can create a better one.  So relax,
>> just do a stub, and move on to more important things.
>>
>> Also, as Roderick says, sucking tables out of Windows is
>> not ok, for copyright reasons.
>
> Very well. I will only devote a very limited amount of time to looking
> at the teapot.
>
> I am currently looking at the GLUT code. They seem to have simplified
> this quite a bit compared to Windows data - at which I will not look per
> all your comments.
>
> I do not really know much (anything) about OpenGL but have pulled this
> code as a combination from:
> http://mindfuck.de-brauwer.be/articles/glut/
> http://www.it.freebsd.org/pub/Unix/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/xsrc/external/mit/MesaGLUT/dist/src/glut/beos/glut_teapot.c
>
> Any ideas how one could quickly look at the raw vertex buffer data using
> OpenGL?
>
> Thank you
> Misha
>
>

How raw do you want to have it:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/glut/glx/glut_teapot.c
? ;)

Roderick