ROAM terrain rendering, help us make spring much faster!

[momfreeek]

I have shadows turned off so I want it anyway! Shame its not the ideal solution now though :/

[Beherith]

Its called mipmapping and opengl does it by default.

The old renderer had that as a bug as a feature.

Also, old renderer doesnt render too much outside of LOS.

[Beherith]

On a related note, why arent terrain shadows affected by this distortion bug?

[Super Mario]

Are you still working on this beherith?

[Beherith]

Im stuck on this one atm, because springs shadow code forces me to dumb it down.

[Super Mario]

Im stuck on this one atm, because springs shadow code forces me to dumb it down.

It's a good thing that SpliFF is working on a rendering rewrite. Hopes it removes the shadow problem you got there.

[thelawenforcer]

i pray to see this in spring one day! it will really help FPS alot!

[Beherith]

Now that detail splatting and specular ready, and with rendering ported to glsl, Ill reinvestigate roam.

[Super Mario]

What's the status so far?

[TradeMark]

nice.

Could it be possible to use this rendering mode when shadows arent turned on? since i think half of the people doesnt use shadows... including me

[AF]

If you lookup what ROAM actually is, you'll see it has nothing to do with shadow mapping, that particular parts appears to be an unfortunate problem of the engines design/implementation

[TradeMark]

Well he said himself the shadow system forced him to pull it off...

[Beherith]

Yes roam is parked cause of shadows.

[AF]

He asked if it would be possible to use ROAM with shadows turned off.

My response was ROAM itself has nothing to do with shadow mapping and therefore it should be usable without shadows turned on.

[the-middleman]

Well would it be possible to release a version of this without shadows? I know it sucks to release "unfinished" work or when it hasnt turned out as planned but what I read in this thread sounds awesome and I just like many other people dont use shadows because they make my fps go down badly.

[Forboding Angel]

...I just like many other people dont use shadows because they make my fps go down badly.

People who play w/o shadows are missing a lot. The difference between rendering with shadows off and shadows on is like night and day.

[JohannesH]

you should be viewing los anyway so you dont see shadows no matter what...

[Masse]

Maybe the developers should just rewrite the fucking shadows already there are at least 3 major bugs in the shadows and this feature wont work until shadows are fixed.

[TradeMark]

Nobody uses shadows, just release it...

[Beherith]

Im locking this until I have time to revisit it.