The initialisation of glu low level tessellator is done in osgUtil::Tessellator::beginTessellation()
This function is not virtual, preventing any customization of the tesselation.
In particular, there in an option in glu tesselator that force the generated primitives to be triangles and that I'd like to use (GLU_TESS_EDGE_FLAG).
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retessellatePolygons was applying the winding and boundary option.
Moved the gluTessProperty calls into beginTessellation().
There's a comment typo fix, removing an unused VertexPointList
typedef, and allocates one _tobj instead of one per tesellation.
Protections were added to check that _tobj was allocated in the few
remaining places it wasn't being checked.
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On a side note, I would like to avoid the 'new Vec3d' in
Tessellator::addVertex for each call to
gluTessVertex(tess, location, data).
The RedBook leaves it ambiguous if the location pointer must
remain valid after gluTessVertex or not.
http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/gluTessVertex.xml
says that changing location is not safe, so being conservative, I'll
leave it as is, even though the Mesa GLU library copies the data not
the pointer, so it is currently safe."
changed extensions from .c to .cpp and got compiling as C files as part of the osg core library.
Updated and cleaned up the rest of the OSG to use the new internal GLU.
with gcc (version 4.3.1) I got the following error message in
include/osgUtil/TriStripVisitor and Tessellator
error: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
The errors belong all to a INLINE function definition. Find attached my
modified version."
