Surfaces?

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Shifty Geezer

I load the meshes and textures as seperate entities. I use CopyMesh() to populate my scene with meshes, but texture those meshes with different textures. eg.

tex1=LoadTexture()
tex2=LoadTexture()
tex3=LoadTexture()

object1=LoadMesh()
object2=LoadMesh()

for n=0 to 100
   mesh=random(1,3)
   select mesh
      objects(n)=copymesh(whichever mesh)
   tex=random(1,3)
   select tex
      textureentity objects(n),whichever texture)
next

Let's say this produces 30 copies of 'object1' and textures 10 each with each of the textures. Would this result in 3 surfaces, or 30? Should I instead create 3 copies of 'object1' and apply each of the textures, and duplicate those instead to maximise (or rather minimise!) surfaces?