I, a newbie, have been doing back face culling in javascript for my WebGL app because I didn't know gl.cullFace() existed. Is there any reason to use software-based culling instead of just passing all faces to GPU and let it do the culling?
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No. The GPU has dedicated hardware for the purpose, so it will be far faster, especially compared to Javascript. (I wouldn't do anything that iterates over individual verts / faces in JS!) |
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Sometimes, but it depends on your use case and data structures. You can still get a win if your data is set up so that you can cull groups of faces per test, and if doing so doesn't require you to break a batch. Otherwise just let the GPU do it (especially if you have VBOs available). |
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