On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Andrew Faraday wrote:

I've recently tried to pass a gem chain through a [pipe] object (aiming to avoid multiple pipes going to translate and colour objects. However it seems the pipe object won't accept gemlists. Any ideas if there's an object that will do this?

Gem operations have to happen in a definite time frame, because all OpenGL operations are going through a single pipe to the renderer. However, I'm pretty sure that we're currently using 3 definitions of the word "pipe" at once. By "multiple pipes" do you mean multiple connections from outlet to inlet ?

Even if [pipe] allowed a gemstate to go through it, it doesn't mean it would do what you want it to do. for GL operations, the meaning of an operation is completely dependent on its order, and if it's not scheduled by [gemwin] itself, chances that it'll fall in the cracks between the frames and die.

This does not apply to [pix...] objects, except the ones that are both pix and GL ([pix_texture] [pix_snap] [pix_snap2tex]).

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