RE: [Algorithms] Terrain performance comparrisons

[Jon W. <hp...@mi...>]

> continuous MMORPG with detailed terrain.  What kind of problems do I =
have=20
> (that are directly related to the large world and desire to have far =
view=20
> distances and seamless movement) ?
>=20
> 1) seamless paging/streaming of lots of data
> 2) LOD/locality of network data
> 3) network prediction and lag compensation for many/far entities
> 4) server distribution and seamless links
> 5) LOD for all the game logic in the distance
> 6) LOD for all the characters, plants, shaders, etc.
> 7) LOD for the client-side physics engine
> 8) LOD for the terrain rendering

You forgot:

0) PC hardware "compatibility"

Cheers,

				/ h+