RE: [Algorithms] VIPM With T&L - what about roam

[Tom F. <to...@mu...>]

I think what Jim is saying is "VIPM works for anything, including landscapes
- but ROAM only works for landscapes". Which I, as a true Crusader on the
Path of VIPM Righteousness, agree with of course. Code the VIPM stuff once,
and you can use it for just about everything in your scene. Landscapes take
a fairly simple bit of code to be converted to VIPM-friendly chunks. What
might take a bit more time is doing the hierarchial VIPM thing, where the
chunks can be coalesced into bigger chunks as they get further away.

Tom Forsyth - Muckyfoot bloke.
Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Offerman [mailto:j.o...@in...]
> Sent: 12 September 2000 13:10
> To: gda...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Algorithms] VIPM With T&L - what about roam
> 
> 
> > It's all swings and roundabouts, there are cruder LOD techniques for
> > ...
> > draw more polys. Any thoughts?
> 
> These days, with hardware evolving so fast, it may very well be more
> rewarding to spend your time writing something which will increase the
> overall speed of your (rendering) engine than to spend time working on
> something which will only speed up rendering of a certain 
> type of geometry.
> 
> Jim Offerman
> Innovade
> 
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