I'm planning on rendering many sprites in my games, but I am not sure which method of storing their data to use. I haven't tried all of them yet, but I want to see if I also have anything important missing. Right now my options are:
Store information such as position, color, rotation, scale, and texIndex in a VBO, and then let the geometry shader output the triangles. (Not sure if possible)
Compute the vertices for all sprites in the CPU and put it all into one VBO to draw. (Sounds like a waste of CPU time, especially in a game)
Store repeated copies of the same four vertices in a VBO, and then use uniforms? (This is just an idea, I have no idea if it works or makes sense) Apparently I can just use instancing for this.
What design should I use to efficiently store sprite data? Do any of my ideas hold?
Edit: I would greatly appreciate if pseudocode could be provided for a solution, although certainly not necessary.
