New terrain scene node

Asterisk Man · Post by **Asterisk Man** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:15 am

It's not, I've just been away for a while

I've been redoing the data structure holding the vertex data, but I can't seem to find a feasible option to a having huge vertex buffer, and giving each quad tree node to have only pointers to the vertex data.

I've been toying with the idea of implementing geometry clipmaps instead of dynamic tessellation, any thoughts or preferences on that?

Peter Müller · Post by **Peter Müller** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:00 am

no, but still very interessted!

bal · Post by **bal** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:14 am

Peter Müller wrote:no, but still very interessted!

Me too. When are you going to release the source

?

jordanXXX · Post by **jordanXXX** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:41 am

wait for the source ~~~

Peter Müller · Post by **Peter Müller** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:44 am

Let him take his time to finish.

zola - · Post by **zola -** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:47 am

Asterisk Man wrote: I've been redoing the data structure holding the vertex data, but I can't seem to find a feasible option to a having huge vertex buffer, and giving each quad tree node to have only pointers to the vertex data.

Did You take a look at saigumis seamless world tutorial? Maybe this could give You some ideas. I'd like to see a PageingLandscape in Irrlicht

Asterisk Man wrote: I've been toying with the idea of implementing geometry clipmaps instead of dynamic tessellation, any thoughts or preferences on that?

What are geometry clipmaps?

Looking forward to see some screenshots

bal · Post by **bal** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:58 pm

Damned, this isn't going nowhere, is it?

Peter Müller · Post by **Peter Müller** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 8:14 pm

I hope not

knightoflight · Post by **knightoflight** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:41 am

btw: i got a mail from a guy (from Drexel Uni USA), he wrote he works at a terrain engine for irrlicht, if i could help. I wrote back: Yes, how can i help?
No answer. Sometimes its absurdly...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:54 pm

Ping...
any news?

LordNaikon · Post by **LordNaikon** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:50 pm

pong...

seems to be not

knightoflight · Post by **knightoflight** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:28 pm

yes the last lifesign was in June...
If its dead, why dont we make it together (with the same licence like Irrlicht) ?
First we would have to decide which algorithm:
http://vterrain.org/LOD/Papers/index.html
And we would need someone who hosts the project probably with a CVS.
I would like to help

knightoflight · Post by **knightoflight** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:09 pm

i searched for a good terrain-engine on http://vterrain.org,
i found Stefan Roettgers terrainengine libmini. vterrain.org says:
"libMini by Stefan Röttger - implements his paper Real-Time Generation of Continuous Levels of Detail for Height Fields
LGPL source, highly optimized, 5 bytes/heixel, very fast"
I translate it with: " Quick and Cool !".

Normally it draws with OPENGL, but it also has a stubengine inside, where the user
has to write some interface-functions and the user can draw with other things.
I wrote the interface for Irrlicht.
Look in the "FAQs and Howto"-section of the forum for
"How to use the terrain engine libmini with Irrlicht "

knightoflight · Post by **knightoflight** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:29 am

the v0.2 of the FaceOfMars-Demo for terrainengine libmini with Irrlicht is online (with source).
Look in the "FAQs and Howto"-section of the forum for
"How to use the terrain engine libmini with Irrlicht "

Voltare1 · Post by **Voltare1** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 6:17 am

i'm gettin from 168-206 fps depending on whether i'm diving at the terrain , or "walking" on it....very nice!

btw-----2.8ghz p4, 512 mb , geforce 5200 128mb .............

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New terrain scene node

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