setFarValue question

MeisterK · Post by **MeisterK** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:46 pm

As far as I understood is the Irrlicht farValue the farest distance to a point the camera can view before it's clipped off?!
Clipping off meshes increases the "frames per second" and decreases the primitives(triangles) drawn.

I've tested this using an empty scene first with only a TestSceneNode and later with only an AnimatedMeshSceneNode (ms3d).
Both were not displayed after the camera moved too far away.

But "irrDriver->getPrimitiveCountDrawn()" never changed when using an AnimatedMeshSceneNode as it does with a TestSceneNode.
On the other hand having a scene with 100s of AnimatedMeshSceneNodes and a small farValue doesn't speed up the performance even when they are not display (since they are too far away)

Is my understand wrong or is this probably a bug?

Xception · Post by **Xception** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:43 pm

It's a bug.
Culling does not work right.
Look in the bug reports forum for a fix:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... php?t=6549

MeisterK · Post by **MeisterK** » Wed May 04, 2005 11:00 pm

Thx for the reply.

I tried the fix (and it seemed to work) but it incredable slowed the rendering (from 17 FPS to 1 FPS!)

Maybe I did something wrong and so I'm waiting for the 0.10