[Feature Proposal] Vertex Colors on TriangleMesh

[Knee Snap]

Was hoping to get feedback on my suggestion instead, but another suggestion
doesn't work.

The idea of a CustomMesh<TVertex> is impossible to implement until after we
have fully user-supplied shader support, which I've already addressed as
being not the scope of this change (but instead it is a separate future
change which is not impacted by this) it also feels like this point may
have been missed as well.

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 6:28 PM Michael Strauß <michaelstrau2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Any solution which was good enough for normals is also good enough for
> vertex colors right?
>
> Not necessarily. Designing APIs is hard, and one should try to start
> from a point of asking "how would the API look like if we had
> considered all of the things we know now from the beginning".
>
> An idea that might be worth exploring is the following. Instead of
> storing positions, normals, texture coordinates, etc. in separate
> buffers as it is currently done in TriangleMesh, we could have a
> CustomMesh<TVertex>, where TVertex is a structure that stores all
> relevant components in the same place. This could be a sealed
> interface that only allows a limited set of implementations (because
> we don't have the option of user-defined vertex structures at the
> moment), but could allow for future extension with user-defined vertex
> structures.
>
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