A CC3VertexArray that manages the drawing indices of an array of vertices. More...
#import <CC3VertexArrays.h>
Detailed Description
This class is also a type of CC3DrawableVertexArray, and as such, is capable of drawing the vertices to the GL engine.
A vertex index array is different than other vertex arrays in that instead of managing actual vertex data, it manages indexes that reference the elements of the other vertex arrays. The bufferTarget property is GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, the elementSize property is 1, and the elementType is either GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT or GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE
Because an index datum does not describe an aspect of a particular vertex, but rather points to a vertex, index data cannot be interleaved with the vertex data. As such, the data underlying a CC3VertexIndices is never interleaved and shared with the data underlying the other vertex arrays in a mesh.
The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:
