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copied!<p>A VBO is just a piece of memory, you use it to make things run faster by having the data reside in the graphics card. (Some hardware uses system memory for VBO, so not really much to gain in this case) I also find it cleaner to always use VBOs, but that's a bit of a personal preference.</p> <p>Anyway you can create VBOs, and then change the data inside them, same as piece of RAM, if you need to change everything on VBO every frame again no performance benefit, but if you only need to change stuff from time to time, or some of the data is fixed (say your vertex data), then you start to get some benefits...</p> <p>for example:</p> <pre><code>glGenBuffers(1, &vboObjects[vboGroupBeaver]); glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vboObjects[vboGroupBeaver]); glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, beaverVerts*8*sizeof(GLfloat), 0, GL_STATIC_DRAW); GLvoid* vbo_buffer = glMapBufferOES(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, GL_WRITE_ONLY_OES); NSString *path; path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"beaver01" ofType:@"bin"]; NSFileHandle *model = [NSFileHandle fileHandleForReadingAtPath:path]; float vertice[8]; int counter = 0; while (read([model fileDescriptor], &vertice, 8*sizeof(float))) { memcpy(vbo_buffer, vertice, 8*sizeof(GLfloat)); // 0 vbo_buffer += 8*sizeof(GLfloat); counter++; } NSLog(@"Vertices %1i",counter); glUnmapBufferOES(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER); </code></pre> <p>This bit of code loads a model into a VBO (vboGroupBeaver), in this example it's the first keyframe of a animation. All the data is now in the VBO, if I do this after:</p> <pre><code> glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, 8*sizeof(GLfloat), (GLvoid*)((char*)NULL)); glNormalPointer(GL_FLOAT, 8*sizeof(GLfloat), (GLvoid*)((char*)NULL+3*sizeof(GLfloat))); glTexCoordPointer(2, GL_FLOAT,8*sizeof(GLfloat), (GLvoid*)((char*)NULL+6*sizeof(GLfloat))); glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, beaverVerts); </code></pre> <p>I get a beaver drawn... (Notice that I'm using interleaved vertex data, that's why the pointer calls have the extra info). In your case you would have a Color Pointer instead of a Texture pointer.</p> <p>Now, if you want to change stuff all you have to do is glMapBufferOES to a buffer var, and interate thru it to change only the parts you need. Something like:</p> <pre><code>vbo_buffer = glMapBufferOES(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, GL_WRITE_ONLY_OES); for (int i = start; i < end; i++) { vbo_buffer += 6*sizeof(GLfloat); // offset to position memcpy(vbo_buffer, whatYouWantToChange, 2*sizeof(GLfloat)); // change what you want, watch the size } </code></pre> <p><strong>EDIT give an example with color</strong></p> <p>First some example data, in this case a triangle with per vertex data interleaved:</p> <pre><code>static const ColoredTriangle vertexData[] = { { {0.0, 0.0, 0.0}, // Vertex 0 {0.0, 0.0, 1.0}, // Normal {1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0} // Color }, { {0.0, 480.0, 0.0}, // Vertex 1 {0.0, 0.0, 1.0}, // Normal {1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0} // Color }, { {320.0, 0.0, 0.0}, // Vertex 2 {0.0, 0.0, 1.0}, // Normal {1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0} // Color } </code></pre> <p>Copy the thing to the vbo (after creating/binding/MapBuffer.</p> <pre><code>memcpy(vbo_buffer, vertexData, 10*3*sizeof(float)); </code></pre> <p>draw the thing</p> <pre><code>glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, 10*sizeof(GLfloat), (GLvoid*)((char*)NULL)); glNormalPointer(GL_FLOAT, 10*sizeof(GLfloat), (GLvoid*)((char*)NULL+3*sizeof(GLfloat))); glColorPointer(4, GL_FLOAT, 10*sizeof(GLfloat), (GLvoid*)((char*)NULL+6*sizeof(GLfloat))) glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, beaverVerts); </code></pre> <p>So now you have a triangle being draw with interleaved data from the VBO.</p> <p>Now on each frame you want to do something just change the data.</p> <pre><code>GLvoid* vbo_buffer = glMapBufferOES(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, GL_WRITE_ONLY_OES); vbo_buffer += 6*sizeof(GLfloat); // position the buffer at the first vertex color data for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) { memcpy(vbo_buffer, newColor, 4*sizeof(GLfloat)); vbo_buffer += 10*sizeof(GLfloat); // skip the stripe } glUnmapBufferOES(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER); </code></pre> <p>Then draw again, and you just changed the color info. Depending on the number of changes you're going to be making it might be better to change GL_STATIC_DRAW to something else also...</p> <p><strong>Disclaimer</strong> This was made on the fly, so beware of dragons.</p>

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