CUDA + OpenGL - question positioning models without taking download info from the GPU

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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Hello,

I have an application on cuda that changes the position and orientation of 3D models. I have been using the same scheme of the SDK sample particles and have use the VBO in order to render the models as points. But now I want to render some more complex model, and i dont want to download the data from the GPU make the transformations on the model and send the model to the GPU again.

How can I do this?

Thanks,
Mark

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You could write to 3 float4 VBOs from CUDA (representing a 3x4 matrix), and then read these in the vertex shader as texture, constructing the matrix and then using it transform your points to world space.

But unless you have a huge number of objects it’s probably easier and not much slower to just read the transforms back to the CPU.

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Thanks…

I have 1M objects that I would like to render…

I will try to use a texture scheme for that.

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Thanks,

I have now another question…

I would like to have my CUDA in a thread and the renderization in another thread…

Can I still use VBO with multithread?