Ogre2 'Tindalos': Dynamic resources

[Ayudo]

I would welcome a cleaner dynamic resource strategy.

With dynamic resources I mean materials, meshes, animations...

How about:

FooPtr foo = Ogre::FooManager::getSingelton().getFoo("Name");
foo.edit();
foo.parameter1 = changedvalue;
foo.parameter2 = changedvalue2;
foo.update();

What do you think?

[xavier]

Not sure what you are asking for -- could you be more specific? There is nothing static about Ogre resources, you can create whatever you want, however you want, currently.

[Kencho]

I think he is talking about tweaking already loaded resources and reload them in run time without having to unload/load them manually.

[xavier]

I guess I am missing the need to "reload" them -- if a resource is already resident in memory, and you change its data, what needs to be updated? If it's a hardware buffer (i.e. pixel, vertex or index) then you have to lock it anyway to change it, which will cause a resend of the changed data when you unlock the buffer. Anything else that is CPU-side only, when you change the data, it changes immediately, so what's to update? "Script"-based data such as materials, when you change their properties, the data is changed immediately.

A specific example of what the OP has in mind is in order here, I think...

[Kencho]

I was just explaining what I understood in his words, not supporting the idea

[:wumpus:]

You can already create all the resources dynamically: textures, meshes, etc. There are plenty of examples of that in the demos.