Backface culling? | GameDev.net

colinisinhere · 2003-10-16T18:28:22+00:00

From what i''ve heard, it is a method of only showing polygons facing the camera and not showing the back faces. Is this done through Opengl/DirectX or programmed in the engine? And if its done with OpenGL how do you enable it?

And in DirectX: dev->SetRenderState( D3DRS_CULLMODE, D3DCULL_CCW );

On all graphics hardware manufactured since around 1996/7, backface culling has been performed by the HARDWARE. So neither OpenGL or DirectX actually do the work, your graphics card does (when it''s assembling vertices and indices into polygons).

BTW: Backface culling, what it does and how to use it is fully documented in the documentation for both DirectX and OpenGL.

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Simon O''Connor
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