Irrlicht Engine

Use a heart beat system...
Let the client handle the physics but synchronize the world once every 10 secondes or so...
You have two approaches possible :
- The FPS approach : Keep refreshing the world all the time.
- The mmo approach : Use emats, send when a player starts doing something and when it ...

Here is my paged terrain system, which also supports height editing and texture splatting :
http://filebeam.com/0568a038d8d9d9e733339108e37f6747
Do whatever you like with, you will have to edit it to get it working with your project, since I used functions that are specific to my engine like ...

Hardware tesslation was already present in Dx10.1 so I don't see why everybody is getting excited about Dx11... Dx11 is just Dx10.1 with a multi-threaded architecture to me...

You never declared node...
use groud->setPosition() instead ...

In order to load your texture in multithread, you can use a lock like such but would require to edit irrlicht's sources...
It crashes in the following cases :
- access to a texture that's not fully loaded
- access to a texture that it being loaded
- access to an unexisting texture

to get rid of the ...

Btw did anyone find a way to have more than 3 textures ?
I tried the multipass technique but couldn't get it to work...
Thx

Yay got the best score !

I used to use a heightmap system but it's very limited especially when you want to make caves and irregular geometry.
So I just use a raw file.
The terrain system saves each tile once they are being deleted.
For the textures you should use an alpha map and then texture splatting, it's easier than ...

It will not affect the frame rate but it will still take time to load...
Instead of getting stuck while it's loading it will still show the previous picture while you are loading and once it's done loading you just replace the old one with the new one.
For asynchronous tasks it's going to be quite ...

Asynchronous loading or multi threaded should be the best solution...
Remember that when you load a texture you also load it on your GPU so you have to worry about your GPU's memory limit as well.

Update !
Now supports texture splatting and comes with a UI (Qt powered).
Here is the video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cueoFrDNU4Q

And you use newton's algorithm 2 times, it should be used only once since you use the magic number.

If you want, I can send you my Paged terrain system, it supports terrain editing and texture splatting. But I use bullet (just a few stuff to change though).

Well it's not the best way to do it imo...
You should take a look at irrPhysx and you will see that he doesn't need to use getNode() or anything like that because he uses inheritance (which is what irrlicht does as well).

You might be a big terrain lover but mine is infinite ^^ and I still use 16bits array... It's all about the way you chose to implement it.
Of course if you use the basic irrlicht system, you need a huge height-map which is not the best imo (loads of memory and slow), my system is able to load ...