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From: Andreas Schrattenecker <andreas.schrattenecker@jk.uni-linz.ac.at>
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Subject: Re: packet size & GsSetWorkBase()
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 04:40:07 +0100
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Do you use FntPrint for debugging? chars put out to display are
probably also primitives.

Andreas Schrattenecker


Roland Boettcher wrote:

> I was writing a small test program to display a single quad
> polygon with a texture (FT4). It all worked fine but I was
> wondering what is the "correct" size of the packet array that
> you have to pass to GsSetWorkBase(). The docs say an FT4
> primitive has an olen of 9. So I thought the array should be of
> the length 9x4=36. But it didnīt work. Then I tried to find the
> smallest number that worked. It is 8488. Can anybody tell me
> how to calculate that number? Another stange thing is that that
> number works fine with 4 FT4 polygons as well (I havnīt tried
> more yet).
>
> Roland