From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Allegro 2.2 question
Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:55:05 +0100
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Thomas Harte writes:
>       Is there a command similar to polygon3d_f, but which reads the 
>necessary number of co-ordinates from one long int? e.g. if I wrote :-

This isn't currently possible, but it is an easy thing to add, so I will
do it for the next version. The reason it works the way it does is that
I never anticipated people would want to use variable numbers of
vertices (I've needed to do that myself), and in situations where you
are sharing a single vertex between multiple polygons (very common in
most 3d engines), it is more efficient to take a separate pointer to
each vertex than to require them to be copied to contiguous locations in
a temporary buffer. But there is no problem with supporting both types
of parameter, so I will add your method as well...


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