[gameprogrammer] Re: Multi-Threading in C++

["richard sabbarton" <richard.sabbarton@gmail.com>]

Hi Olivier,

 

Thank you for the feedback.  It looks like you can execute more than one OpenGL command at a time.  I found the problem in the end.  It was actually caused by multiple instances of my new thread being spawned.  I manage to cap it to a single thread and I can now load my textures from files using an array of GLuint variables in the background while I continue rendering.  There is a bit of a drop in framerate but it seems to work OK.

 

Thanks

 

Richard

 

On 02/05/07, Olivier Delannoy <olivier.delannoy@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't think cause the opengl state is common between both threads so
each opengl function call will act on the machine state shared in the
driver  and on the graphic card.

On 5/2/07, richard sabbarton <richard.sabbarton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am relatively new to the list and I am still learning.  I am working on a
> 3D game (personal learning project at the moment) and I am trying to spawn a
> new thread at a certain point in my code.  The purpose of this thread is to
> pull objects, models and textures from files into memory (for OpenGL) while
> I am continuing to render in the primary thread.
>
> So far I have created a thread and the thread spawns OK.  It starts running
> but during the loading process I am getting access violation errors when
> trying to access arrays of GLuint variables (for the textures).  At this
> point the arrays are not in use by the primary thread so I thought I would
> be able to avoid using any sort of mutex.  I am still new to multi-threading
> and I am using the standard WINAPI CreateThread() function.
>
> Can anyone offer any advice on how to do this or point me to any good
> tutorials online.
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard


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Olivier Delannoy
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PRiSM Laboratory
Versailles University, FRANCE

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