Re: [Plib-devel] [PATCH] crease for ac3d files and speedup

[Mathias <Mat...@gm...>]

Hi,

Sorry for the long delay I was not online that weekend ...

On Samstag 09 Oktober 2004 16:37, Steve Baker wrote:
> Does this patch take care not to merge things if (for example) there is
> a comment or object name attached to one or other of the nodes (or to a
> node that is the parent of one leaf node and not the other)?
>
> Some applications use the comment or model name to tell them to turn
> that node in the scene graph into an LOD or an animation node.
Yep.

All this stuff is done per ac3d-object. So different objects are never merg=
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together.
Stripping away unused transforms and such things are left to the old=20
ssgFlatten and childs code.
One part of the patch in a slight modification in the strip function to=20
prevent branches with names to be stripped away.
This could happen before and it happend occasionally with a still unpublish=
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flightgear model I have on my private disk. Now fixed ...

I did that patch with flightgear in mind. Flightgear uses the object names =
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animations. Looking at all that happy people who tried that patch with the=
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improved framerates together with flightgear during that weekend, I think=20
this is ok :)

   Greetings

          Mathias

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Mathias Fr=F6hlich, email: Mat...@gm...