diff --git a/src/render/draw_data.rs b/src/render/draw_data.rs
index 2823a71..8150ef9 100644
--- a/src/render/draw_data.rs
+++ b/src/render/draw_data.rs
@@ -224,49 +224,49 @@ use glium::implement_vertex;
 implement_vertex!(DrawVert, pos, uv, col);
 
 #[cfg(feature = "gfx")]
-unsafe impl gfx::traits::Pod for DrawVert {}
-#[cfg(feature = "gfx")]
-impl gfx::pso::buffer::Structure<gfx::format::Format> for DrawVert {
-    fn query(name: &str) -> Option<gfx::pso::buffer::Element<gfx::format::Format>> {
-        // array query hack from gfx_impl_struct_meta macro
-        use gfx::format::Formatted;
-        use gfx::pso::buffer::{ElemOffset, Element};
-        use std::mem::{size_of, transmute};
-        // using "1" here as a simple non-zero pointer addres
-        let tmp: &DrawVert = unsafe { transmute(1usize) };
-        let base = tmp as *const _ as usize;
-        //HACK: special treatment of array queries
-        let (sub_name, big_offset) = {
-            let mut split = name.split(|c| c == '[' || c == ']');
-            let _ = split.next().unwrap();
-            match split.next() {
-                Some(s) => {
-                    let array_id: ElemOffset = s.parse().unwrap();
-                    let sub_name = match split.next() {
-                        Some(s) if s.starts_with('.') => &s[1..],
-                        _ => name,
-                    };
-                    (sub_name, array_id * (size_of::<DrawVert>() as ElemOffset))
-                }
-                None => (name, 0),
-            }
-        };
-        match sub_name {
-            "pos" => Some(Element {
-                format: <[f32; 2] as Formatted>::get_format(),
-                offset: ((&tmp.pos as *const _ as usize) - base) as ElemOffset + big_offset,
-            }),
-            "uv" => Some(Element {
-                format: <[f32; 2] as Formatted>::get_format(),
-                offset: ((&tmp.uv as *const _ as usize) - base) as ElemOffset + big_offset,
-            }),
-            "col" => Some(Element {
-                format: <[gfx::format::U8Norm; 4] as Formatted>::get_format(),
-                offset: ((&tmp.col as *const _ as usize) - base) as ElemOffset + big_offset,
-            }),
-            _ => None,
+mod gfx_support {
+    use gfx::*;
+    use super::DrawVert;
+
+    // gfx doesn't provide a macro to implement vertex structure for an existing struct, so we
+    // create a dummy vertex with the same memory layout using gfx macros, and delegate query(name)
+    // calls later to the automatically derived implementation
+    gfx_vertex_struct! {
+        Dummy {
+            pos: [f32; 2] = "pos",
+            uv: [f32; 2] = "uv",
+            col: [format::U8Norm; 4] = "col",
         }
     }
+    unsafe impl gfx::traits::Pod for DrawVert {}
+    impl gfx::pso::buffer::Structure<gfx::format::Format> for DrawVert {
+        fn query(name: &str) -> Option<gfx::pso::buffer::Element<gfx::format::Format>> {
+            // Dummy has the same memory layout, so this should be ok
+            Dummy::query(name)
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_dummy_memory_layout() {
+        use std::mem;
+        assert_eq!(
+            mem::size_of::<DrawVert>(),
+            mem::size_of::<Dummy>()
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            mem::align_of::<DrawVert>(),
+            mem::align_of::<Dummy>()
+        );
+        use memoffset::offset_of;
+        macro_rules! assert_field_offset {
+            ($l:ident, $r:ident) => {
+                assert_eq!(offset_of!(DrawVert, $l), offset_of!(Dummy, $r));
+            };
+        };
+        assert_field_offset!(pos, pos);
+        assert_field_offset!(uv, uv);
+        assert_field_offset!(col, col);
+    }
 }
 
 #[test]