Re: [TuxKart-devel] playing with 2 gamepads

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Ingo Ruhnke wrote:

> I am also not sure how plib internally works, so pumping the track as
> one huge mesh to it might not be a good idea. Some of the other tracks
> where broken up in little segments, which might make it easier to cull
> these when they are out of the view.

Both collision code and rendering code will benefit IMMENSELY from having
the track broken up into short segments.  Without that, there is no way
to cull by field of view - and the collision detection code will have to
do really costly testing for just about every polygon.

---------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------
HomeEmail: <sjb...@ai...>    WorkEmail: <sj...@li...>
HomePage : http://www.sjbaker.org
Projects : http://plib.sf.net    http://tuxaqfh.sf.net
            http://tuxkart.sf.net http://prettypoly.sf.net
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
GCS d-- s:+ a+ C++++$ UL+++$ P--- L++++$ E--- W+++ N o+ K? w--- !O M-
V-- PS++ PE- Y-- PGP-- t+ 5 X R+++ tv b++ DI++ D G+ e++ h--(-) r+++ y++++
-----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----