LOD?

[Keeping_Up]

What do we have for a LOD system in Irrlicht?

[Guest]

for terrain: geomipmaps
for models: none (i think)

[Keeping_Up]

Is there a plugin or something to add that will allow LOD?

[Guest]

what LOD do you want?

[ThommyE]

if you are talking about the thing i am thinking...

try makin 3 different versions of your models (or more),
code something that will get the distance between your camera and the model-node
decide with the distance wich of the 3 models is displayed.
should be easy to do withour modifiing sources.

-primitive,simple,very basic but not too bad at all.
something more advanced would require dynamic poly-reducement or stuff like that.
hope i could help.

if you talked about something else..
.. sry^^

[Guest]

you could do it even better and use string functions.

so if you load "model.x" then use string-functions to add _01 automatically, example:

loadModel("model.x");

then the function should add "model_01.x" "model_02.x" "model_03.x" so that you do not have to code that stuff everytime yourself.

i cannot explain so good right now because i dont have much time, but i hope you could understand what i was trying to say

[Midnight]

why make more then one model?

can't you just make different frames?

[Guest]

and when the model is static and has no animation?

(i know that the VBO code i used only uses the extension for models when they only have 1 frame, so i could not use that technique :/ )

but thats sure a nice idea too

[Guest]

This is known as procedural meshes in D3D8/9 - the docs mention the DX way of doing it so a quick read should help you code them into irrlicht ... yeah as if it is that simple but you get the idea