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Opened 19 years ago

Last modified 17 years ago

#96 new defect

Terrain Geomorphing in the Vertex Shader

Reported by: patrick Owned by: nobody
Priority: minor Milestone: Old Orxonox tickets orx-v0
Component: GraphicsEngine Version:
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Description

Terrain rendering has heretofore been computed by a CPU and rendered by a combination of CPU and GPU. It is possible to implement a fast terrain renderer which works optimally with current 3D hardware. This is done by using geo-mipmapping which splits the terrain into a set of smaller meshes called patches. Each patch is triangulated view-dependently into one single triangle strip. Special care is taken to avoid gaps and t-vertices between neighboring patches. An arbitrary number of textures can be applied to the terrain which are combined using multiple alpha-blended rendering passes. Since the terrain's triangulation changes over time, vertex normals cannot be used for lighting. Instead a pre-calculated lightmap is used. In order to reduce popping when a patch switches between two tessellation levels geo-morphing is implemented. As will be pointed out later, this splitting of the terrain into small patches allows some very helpful optimizations.

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Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 18 years ago by patrick

  • Milestone changed from feature-taks to 0.3.6_graphics_and_performance

comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by bknecht

  • Milestone changed from Graphics and Performance THISISOBSOLETE to Old Orxonox tickets

Milestone Graphics and Performance THISISOBSOLETE deleted

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