sphere scenenode of level of detail

dujimache · Post by **dujimache** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:36 am

does anyone have a sphere scenenode of level of detail, like the world wind's earth,or can somebody give me some advice on this topic?

DtD · Post by **DtD** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:23 am

Basically, just make a scene node with a sphere mesh a several different resolutions, and then render a different one depending on how far away the camera is. You don't even need to write the code to generate the spheres

~David

dujimache · Post by **dujimache** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:01 am

DtD wrote:Basically, just make a scene node with a sphere mesh a several different resolutions, and then render a different one depending on how far away the camera is. You don't even need to write the code to generate the spheres

~David

yes,your suggestion is a good idea for rendering a sphere,but it needs too much memory,because irrlicht's sphere node renders all the vertices of the whole sphere,is there anybody create some node considering lod??

Slaine · Post by **Slaine** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:44 pm

Sounds like you need a Chunked LOD 3rd party library like I'm trying to get to work with Irrlicht

http://www.organicvectory.com/index.php ... 2&Itemid=2

DtD · Post by **DtD** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:41 pm

Oh, you mean LOD like they have on the terrain. I'd look at how the terrain scene node works internally and go from there.

dujimache · Post by **dujimache** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 1:42 pm

Slaine wrote:Sounds like you need a Chunked LOD 3rd party library like I'm trying to get to work with Irrlicht
http://www.organicvectory.com/index.php ... 2&Itemid=2

thank you very much,the pics shown on your link seem like effect,can i get access the source code??

dujimache · Post by **dujimache** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 1:44 pm

DtD wrote:Oh, you mean LOD like they have on the terrain. I'd look at how the terrain scene node works internally and go from there.

thanks ,if you create a lod sphere scene node,tell me!thank you.i think it is a very useful node!

Slaine · Post by **Slaine** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:32 pm

Download this
http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3584

It's a FreeBasic Irrlicht wrapper, in the source someone has extended the STerrainSceneNode to STerrainSphereNode, just copy and paste into your project, that should sort your problem out

Slaine · Post by **Slaine** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:33 pm

dujimache wrote:
Slaine wrote:Sounds like you need a Chunked LOD 3rd party library like I'm trying to get to work with Irrlicht
http://www.organicvectory.com/index.php ... 2&Itemid=2

thank you very much,the pics shown on your link seem like effect,can i get access the source code??

No, it's closed source.

Slaine · Post by **Slaine** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:39 pm

However, if you do decide to use the Irrlicht terrain sphere node it is still limited, it'll only optimise down to a certain vertex count, whereas ovPlanet will continue to simplify as the camera moves further and further away, until it's only a few hundred vertexes, so ovPlanet is faster for a high number of spheres.