accessing stream data

All streams use the same indexbuffer. They don''t have to be the same format.
You can combine the different streams in a vertexshader. That''s what they do

-Morten-

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All streams use the same indexbuffer.

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I''m trying to write a tile engine. The actual positions of the vertices are shared by everything so I don''t want to waste the memory of repeating them. The only things that are different between vertices are the texture coordinates. Each tile has its own separate pair of 4 texture coordinates, so repeating vertices quickly adds up to huge amounts of memory. Is there any way to make an indux buffer only apply to one stream?

No. The index buffer applies to all streams.

You can change the mapping so it just continues on (unless you need to clamp your textures). There''s a limit to how many times you can wrap the texture coordinates, though. It can save loads of memory. This will also improve your average striplength and the post transform cache behaves much better.

-Morten-

I can''t do that. The textures do not repeat like that.

If you''re using vertex shaders and are worried about the memory usage you could try and compress the texture coordinates. Or maybe you could calculate them in the shader somehow?