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From: "Matt Verran" <mverran@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: freeserve sees the light (and octtrees)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 13:07:49 -0000
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Hi Martin

 Looking forward to seeing these games!

MattV

Martin Keates <martin@jabadaw.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:97pffv$deu1@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> Hello,
>
> today was a great day for science. Or, at least, suddenly I can see
> the yaroze servers using freeserve. Marvellous. Now I can check
> them every day instead of like once a month and possibly get
> actively involved with this thing and upload stuff and things.
>
> Anyway, I'm Martin, I got my yaroze right at the end of them being
> available. I've done a bit of 2D coding on it (couple of crap games
> which I'll upload now I can do it for free) but I'm basically a 3D man.
> My experience is in rendering (ray tracing, radiosity, volume
> rendering) and VR (culling, collision detection and so on).
>
> People were talking about octrees and what good they are recently.
> Well they are used a lot in rendering in particular ray tracing for
> improving ray-object intersections. Other approaches are regular
> grids or more generic subdivisions based on complexity. BB
> hierarchies aren't so good (for this).
> You could probably use octrees for culling and collision but BBs are
> so fast even for massive models that there's probably not much
> point. Anyway, as far as the yaroze goes, there probably isn't
> enough memory in it to implement much of a spatial management
> system - not such a general one anyway. I was going to try and
> use something specific to whatever game I *am* going to write
> someday. (high optimism there).
>
> I used Watt at university too (11 years ago...). I think Foley and
> Van Dam is better, but no idea about recent books.
>
> later,
> Martin.
>
>
>