Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airplane model

[David F. <dav...@ya...>]

On Tuesday 19 June 2001 01:20, Curtis L. Olson hit his keyboard with a hammer 
and this was the result:
> For FlightGear, we'd really like to keep the number of triangles much
> lower than that if possible ... or have a lower detailed version and a
> higher detailed version so you can save polygons if you are viewing
> the model from a distance or if you have several of them parked at an
> airport.
>
> That's the real trick here, and what makes it so hard, is to come up
> with good looking models that don't consume a lot of polygons.  That's
> where the experience and talent comes into play.  This stuff isn't
> easy to do.

I think that's where realtime LOD will have to come into it.

David


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