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From: "Omar" <OMetwally7@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: Fast dynamic TMDs
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:41:40 -0400
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i haven't done it, but i'm pretty sure that games with big levels are broken
up into multiple TMDs, and then you can do a view frustum test to see which
TMDs are in the view plane and draw only those.  if the landscape is
complex, you can also test to see which objects are overlapped by others and
out of your view.  i really wanted to try it out on my current game, but the
code listing to do that was kinda lengthy, plus it used floating point
variables, ...plus my level wasn't complex enough to make good use of the
process.  it would be a good experiment though.

-Omar