Re: [Algorithms] Bullets on walls

[jason w. <jas...@po...>]

another stratagy that may work ok as a compramise: if you've already got a
lightmap on the world geometry, then do a subtexture update to the texture
in question, making some little marks on it.

it limits what you can do... I suspect it could be hard to get good blood
stain looking things. You'd also possibly get a framerate hit while someone
is shooting.. a bad situation. But it does avoid the overhead of rendering
seperate geometry.

and a final little diatribe on my part: I think in this next generation,
games that use world geometry only a little more detailed than the current,
and instead use all the rest of the geforce or whatever's few million
polygons for interactive effects like this... I think game engines that make
that choice will end up way better than games that just dump a huge high
poly world object at the T&L.

or to put it another way: what's better: a 500 poly character with a shadow
cast on the floor, or a 1000 poly char with no shadow. I think shadow wins.