Re: [Algorithms] Terrain Organization

[Jim O. <j.o...@in...>]

In addition, you might consider using a preprocessed RTIN version of your
landscape to remove some triangles from the flat areas of your terrain.

Jim Offerman

Innovade
- designing the designer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mats Lundberg" <ma...@al...>
To: <gda...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Algorithms] Terrain Organization


> I've also thought of something similiar to what you proposed...
>
>  Meanwhile I am planning to split the terrain up to several _hierarchical_
>  chunks (with bounding boxes) and, for each frame, I test each chunk
> against the   current viewing frustum (VF) to _recursively_ determine if
it
> has to be
>  submitted to the transformation and rendering pipeline.  If an
> _upper-level_   chunk is rejected, there is no need to go down to the
> _lower-level_ chunks   inside it, which can quickly reject a huge amount
of
> geometry.
>
> I don't se anything wrong with it. No fancy geometry calc:s, just a simple
> recursive function that goes through a quad tree. I mean, how much simpler
> can you make it?? It maybe crude but hey, it works. Right??
>
>
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