RE: [Algorithms] Terrain performance comparrisons

[Stefan M. <me...@sk...>]

> > If time is short, try Grek Snook's version in Games Programming
> Gems 2. It
> > is startlingly simple, and gets you easily 90% of the benefit of any of
> the
> > other routines over having no LOD, and it's very quick. Because it is so
> > simple (i.e. dumb) it works fine with dynamic terrains.
>
> Going to try that ASAP.

Hi,

we've used that LOD for terrain in Race Tracks Unlimited (unpublished but
very nice looking ;) ). But I would recommend to write some code for the
index table generation. In Gems 2 static tables are used. As I needed to
be able to quickly test speed hit of different chunk sizes, I wrote an
automatic table generation for that algo.

If you drop me a line, I could send you the (ugly) code.

My Email : metron at skynet dot be


Kind regards,
Stefan