Synced --> UnSynced Mess... help plz

[Argh]

What the hell's a deep copy, and how do I do it?

I'm doing:

local particleCopy
particleCopy = particleList

...before I bind the first FBO and begin iterating within it's function.

Do I need to do a full iteration, i.e.:

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for i = 1,#particleList,1 do
particleCopy[i] = particleList[i]???
end

[Argh]

So I wrote this:

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local particleCopy = {}

for i = 1,#particleList,1 do
particleCopy[i] = particleList[i]
	for j,k in ipairs (particleList[i]) do

		particleCopy[i][j] = k
	end
end

Deep copy, right?

Well, it still failed. WTF!!! WHY IS MY DATA GETTING WRITTEN TO WHILE THE DRAWGENESIS FUNCTION HASN'T RETURNED YET....

[aegis]

that's not a very deep copy.

[Argh]

I FIXED IT.

You guys are never going to believe this.

Moving the entire particle-update function to DrawWorld() fixed it. Completely. Even after I moved the iteration functions back inside the FBOs. I'll leave it to somebody to figure out why; I've been fighting with this for two days, and it was the last remaining problem with P.O.P.S. + a working texture atlas.

OK, now to get back to doing something useful...