What are sub meshes?

[Yati]

Hi everybody,

I've been playing with the toon shader sample, and I noticed that the model needs to be in sub-meshs to use it.
But I'm not sure what a sub-mesh is.

Are they like separate objects in Maya and you export them both as the one ogre mesh?
Or can you specify the set of faces to be a sub mesh?

Thanks

[jacmoe]

A mesh consists of one or more submeshes, which again is linked to materials.
One material: one submesh.
It's not controlled by you. Not directly anyway.

[Yati]

Thanks for the quick reply,

In the toon shaded sample, the ogre head mesh they use has sub meshes for eyes,earrings, skin and teath. So to make something like that I'd need to put different materials on those part of the mesh in Maya before exporting?

[jacmoe]

Yes, they are different textures / materials.