LOD / ROAM - will they be integrated one day?

Peter Müller · Post by **Peter Müller** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 1:21 pm

Someone on these forum told me, that LOD / ROAM will probably be integrated in Irrlicht in Version 0.7

Knows anyone somethin' about?

Masdus · Post by **Masdus** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:41 am

why would you you want them? they are outdated algorithims that where designed before 3D accerleration hardware was widely used. Basically they reduce the CPU as reduce the number of triangles to be drawn. However now that the GPU handles the triangles the algorithms can be slower than just using a brute force method, due to the CPU time needed to cull the triangles. Methods like Mip-mapping or Chuncked LOD would probably be more useful.