A geometry (NGG) strip draw on the mesh path assigned every primitive the next index positions without looking for the restart index: a triangle spanning a restart fetched vertex 0xFFFF and was drawn to wherever that read landed, and the strip parity never reset, so after an odd-length strip every triangle's winding flipped and face culling dropped it.
For an indexed strip draw with restart enabled and the restart index present, the draw now records each position's strip start (one past the last restart at or before it) and passes the table after the mesh arguments, flagged in draw word 3. The mesh prologue reads the start of its primitive's last vertex: a primitive whose start lies past its first vertex spans a restart and is made degenerate, and the others take their parity from their strip's start (or the draw's first index). The restart vertex itself fetches vertex 0. The table is built from the index bytes the draw already reads (its copy, or the guest memory an in-place import reads), next to #1968's restart-aware highest-index scan.
The new Mesh.cpp test draws quads as four-index strips each followed by a restart (16- and 32-bit indices, and an indirect draw starting mid-buffer) with front faces culled: every quad must render whole and the gaps between them stay clear. Without the table the first check fails ("a triangle crossed the restart after quad 0").
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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