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From: "Matthew Hardingham" <MatthewHardingham@RebelwareInteractive.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: LOD - Suggestions Please
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 16:30:44 -0000
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Hola,
    Right here we go, at the moment I have a LOD terrain program.
This works by calculating where the camera is and what is within the cameras
FOV or frustum.
Whatever is in this FOV is processed onto a display list (just a l-list of
polygons).
This list is then used to generate an on the fly TMD model, which is then
linked into the system etc..
The problems is, is that this occurs each frame (ie the model is getting
linked into the system each frame), this seems to be really slooooowww.

The suggestions are needed for the linking section, can anyone think of a
quicker/better way then linking the model at each frame.
I thought of some sort of morphing but I don't think I'll have time to
implement it.

Help and regards
Matt