something for 3D engine coders

[Dwarden]

this may interest these who are writing something what uses OpenGL :)

in short:

This demo shows a fairly simple way to handle large game worlds. The main problem with large game worlds, as opposed to the regular tech demos I normally do, is that you have way too much data to throw it all on the GPU. Drawing everything is not an option.

http://www.humus.ca/index.php?page=3D&ID=63

of course source code available too ...

[Pxtl]

This game is landscape-based. Landscape engines have a whole different set of optimisations for computing LOS.

[Dwarden]

i know ... this was meant for these who here were writing games in OpenGL (if i remind correctly like half dozen people said so in lobby / forums) ...

and if they don't know that site already then i'm sure they find his sources usefull :)

posting it in offtopic forum will be sin :)

[IMSabbel]

Nevertheless, taking a look at the sourcecode for humus' demos/engines cant hurt at all.

The guy is an ati employee and has over the last 5 years made a habbit of releasing stuff about new gpu features, some of it quite nifty or nontrivial.