where is lod terrain?

condrula · Post by **condrula** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:41 pm

hello is there the lod system in new release?

timmy · Post by **timmy** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:57 pm

where is the lod terrain?

haha not it this release, i am very dissapointed in this release of irrlicht

have a look around in the forums, i can't remember where but it's in here,someone is writing a new terrain class that i believe uses the quadtree algorithm although it ain't released yet. I think it was in the project announcements part

bal · Post by **bal** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:28 pm

Who cares about a fancy terrain engine? I want a stable and bugfree-engine, but I would like to see how Asteriks Man's project turned out (terrain class)

Peter Müller · Post by **Peter Müller** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:22 pm

bal wrote:Who cares about a fancy terrain engine? I want a stable and bugfree-engine, but I would like to see how Asteriks Man's project turned out (terrain class)

lol

bal · Post by **bal** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:34 pm

Peter Müller wrote:lol

I just wanted to say that a terrain engine might not be as important as some other features. Though, Asterik's one looked quite nice and I don't know why he stopped his project (I think he did because he doesn't repond) ...

condrula · Post by **condrula** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:56 pm

[quote="bal"][quote="Peter Müller"]lol

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I just wanted to say that a terrain engine might not be as important as some other features. Though, Asterik's one looked quite nice and I don't know why he stopped his project (I think he did because he doesn't repond) ...[/quote]

i dont remember well but someone says that the lod engine was in the "next" release..(0.7!!!)

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:30 pm

Well, if it's not there... write one.

The way I've been making mine is via the ROAM 2.0 algorithm from the LaMothe series book "Focus on 3D Terrain Rendering".

timmy · Post by **timmy** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:40 pm

is that the book trent pollack (spelling??) wrote? ...if it is, that roam 2.0 implementation needs alot of work and considering Mark Duchaineau has not yet finished roam 2.0 it's pretty hard to implement it all.

Better off following mark's website http://www.cognigraph.com/ROAM_homepage/ROAM2/ if you want to implement roam 2.0

Peter Müller · Post by **Peter Müller** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:42 pm

ROAM 1 would be enought, there are 'tricks' to display dungeons in the with roam 1.

timmy · Post by **timmy** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:15 pm

yeah very true peter,i think roam 1 would be better than what irrlicht has now but i also think geomipmapping or even quadtree is a better way to go until roam 2 is finished. Either which way VBO support in irrlicht is a must if we want to implement any of the above with decent frame rates.