Building a mesh from scratch

Hi

I need to completely rebuild a mesh every frame. This mesh can have several surfaces because I'm stuffing a certain amount of tris into each surface. The number of surfaces can go up or down so - as there's no FreeSurface() command - I'm simply freeing the old mesh and then CreateMesh'ing a new one.

Is this likely to cause any problems, like mem fragmenting, do you think?

I quess I could always clear all the surfaces and rebuild that way but my current method makes things much simpler. :)

Have a look at this topic over at BlitzCoder:

http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/postdisplay.cgi?forum=Forum14&topic=000868

There's some stuff in there from Anthony Flack about his Cletus game where I believe he's doing what you've just suggested.

EDIT: Just skimmed through it and he's using the ClearSurface() command, which maybe what you were looking for with FreeSurface()?

Cheers,

Ryan

The trouble with ClearSurface is that it just blanks the surface, it doesn't actually remove it. So I may need, say 5 surfaces at one point and then later go back to only needing 1, but I have no way of removing the unused surfaces. I guess it's not really a big deal since they're empty anyway - it's just that managing the surfaces is a bit of a pain.

Think I'll just stick to rebuilding everything from scratch. It's only for a debuging function, anyway. :)

Cheers!