The only issue i would have with that is probably the fact that there is no texture mapping so to speak, so you cant really have 3D tiles other than tiles filled with a pattern? This would still be pretty cool imo .

Also to answer your other question, its 5 bytes per face/triangle. But 3 of those bytes are a vertex index, which are another 3 bytes each. Vertices are often reused in a 3D model which means that the size is not fixed, but related to how 'reusable' the vertex list is ... if that makes sense lol.

So will this be for a realtime scene? Or to render a tilemap from a given perspective and then do stuff, like a battle or something?

Though i do have a mode7 engine lying around that might do the trick? It would have to be amended to take out some of the accuracy shortcuts (that were used for speed):

Hmmm, you guys know what I am thinking? tr1p1ea + Xeda teamup== epic win.

lol yeah i always have a hard time finishing stuff. When i get free time ill see what i can do about a proof-of-concept to see if something is even possible at all.

Here is a shape that I found online and converted:


Another shape I converted(a man):

wow, that is looking pretty cool!
CalcGL, here i come

Cool, thanks for making some examples for us to look at

I implemented the better sorting technique and gained over 1fps for the dark link model, which is pretty good imo . (also fixed some bfc issues too).

You gonna upload the new version, or are you gonna wait until you make a bigger update?