Well I haven't tried triangles or mesh yet, its just the default sdl 
cylinder...
Would it work to export a cyl from a mesh modeller and use that?

ian

"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> "[GDS|Entropy]" <gds### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> This probably won't work, because I've never used triangles, and using my
>> current method its very easy to suck up 2gb of ram, but I'm having fun 
>> with
>> it...so whatever...
>
> Maybe you want to use a mesh object instead of individual triangles; that 
> should
> avoid a good deal of memory-consuming overhead.
>
> (Note that triangles don't have to form a contiguous shape to be combined 
> in a
> mesh. Basically, a mesh is just an efficient triangle and smooth_triangle
> container.)
>
>
>

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