Re: [Vrmlengine-main] Network and engine capabilities

[Michalis K. <mic...@gm...>]

2011/8/5 Eduardo Morras <ne...@re...>:
>
> Hi, again more questions about the engine.
>
> a) What type 3D can the engine do? I mean, some engines are very good
> for inner scenes (like quake, unreal, cube2..) while others are very
> good for outer (palomino, openscenegraph, any flight simulator) but
> performs worse or not so good in the other. May I say that this
> engine is not biased to one of those types? The outer type is what
> i'm looking for.

It's not biased, I hope. There are optimizations that work for both
scene types (frustum culling is used automatically, hardware occlusion
query can be turned on --- see
http://vrmlengine.sourceforge.net/news.php?id=2009-05-05 ). There are
tools to improve speed specifically on outdoor scenes (we support LOD
and Billboard nodes from VRML/X3D --- see
http://vrmlengine.sourceforge.net/vrml_implementation_navigation.php,
also fog culling may be activated --- see one of engine examples). The
old "castle" game used both outdoor and indoor scenes.

>
> b) Networking, Which library do you use? Synapse, Freepascal "naked" net, Indy?
>

None, unfortunately. The engine doesn't have any built-in networking
capabilities, *for now*. You can add them yourself, since FPC/Lazarus
have many networing libraries (to the ones you mention, I can also add
LNet). And when you do this, you can even contribute it back to the
engine :)

Michalis