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From: "Mario Wynands" <mario@sidhe.co.nz>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: Re: LOD - Suggestions Please
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:15:50 +1300
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Matthew Hardingham <MatthewHardingham@RebelwareInteractive.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote in message news:8841td$fhf2@chuka.playstation.co.uk...
> 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..

Why notcreate the TMD once at startup and just modify the vertices and
primitives within the TMD on the fly?  You shouldn't have to use more CPU
time than you are currently using and would avoid the need to link the TMD
altogether.


Regards

Mario

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