Re: [Plib-users] Newbie question

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Marco Bancale wrote:

> Sure, changing the far plane was my first idea, but in that way
> all the objects would not be culled (by the far plane) anymore!

That's desirably though.

> Isn't it? So, if I have 100 spaceships around the solar system,
> I should see all of them... always. I think this is not much
> optimized :).

You should use the level-of-detail mechanism to control the
complexity of those spaceship models as a function of range.

If you make the lowest level of detail be just a single GL_POINT
and turn even that off beyond (say) 50 kilometers, you should
have exactly what you need.

> Am I wrong?

I hope so!

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