What Is Immediate Mode? Complete Guide
When a computer application uses an event-driven program architecture, the display is only redrawn when an input is received. Although this works well for web browsers and word processors, it does not work well for video games. This is because the application code must redraw the screen many times a second. The immediate mode solution removes this problem and lets the user customize the redraw process to their needs. In immediate mode, the scene is rendered by the video card without the use of a DOM. Each polygon must be shaded and textured in order to appear in the game.…