Re: Quesa - "Most Wanted" list

[James W. W. <os...@jw...>]

On Jun 1, 2004, at 7:45 PM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:

> 4. Improved speed -- though this has improved recently, we still find 
> that object performance degrades pretty quickly for scenes with lots 
> of objects.  (Some of this may actually be in the REALbasic layer on 
> top of Quesa, but we'd like to at least look into where the current 
> bottlenecks are and see what can be done about them.)

"degrades pretty quickly" meaning as more than a linear function of the 
number of triangles?  Have you tried to separate out the effects of 
lots of triangles, lots of textures, and lots of groups?

> 5. Support for writing text 3DMFs.  I looked at the code a little bit 
> today, and it doesn't look very conducive to adding text support -- 
> about half the code in E3FFW_3DMFBin_Writer.c should actually be 
> shared between the bin and text writers.  But it could be 
> refactored...

By the way, reading text 3DMFs is also incomplete; the table of 
contents is ignored.  I'm not sure if that's explicitly mentioned in 
the bug database, but I know that at least one bug is caused by this 
fact.
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