How to convert GL_TRIANGLES to GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP?

Question

I have data from *.obj file.

I know how draw with GL_TRIANGLES. How i can convert data for GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP?

like glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, numberOfFaces);

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is a non trivial problem, and generally not something you want to do anyway, but there are a couple of external libraries out there to take care of this, like this one:

http://users.telenet.be/tfautre/softdev/tristripper/