Re: [Algorithms] FW: [CsMain] Scene Graphs

[Jonathan W. <JW...@bi...>]

on 9/2/00 6:55 PM, Aaron Drew at ri...@ho... wrote:

> Managing vertex buffers, textures, multiple instances of objects (with
> shared vertex data), etc can get rather clumsy without a consistant system
> yet everything I've read about scene-graphs suggests that they are simply
> traversed and the objects in them rendered. How would I represent (say) an
> octree implementation within a construct like
> this?

The scene graph could just be thought of as a convenient logical structure
used to organise your data. It's actually more than just that (for example
it lends itself well to a portal based scheme or a hierarchical bone based
animation system). Keep the octree separate from your scene graph but have
it share the leaf nodes of your scene graph.

    Jon.