Just to chime in, wouldn't rendering the base tile be "easier" for the GPU, and then static objects, and then dynamic objects?
Saikrishna Arcot On Fri 22 Feb 2013 03:06:37 AM CST, James Turner wrote: > > On 22 Feb 2013, at 07:06, Mathias Fröhlich <mathias.froehl...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> Well, that's on the way. >> Please do not steer any lod ranges except may be the lod bias by any >> property. >> That's again cross connecting code areas that do not need to be connected and >> that then suffer from updates into the scene graph that are unneeded. >> The osg LOD system is simple but effective if used in a sensible way. > > Yep, agreed - all I was saying is that our current model / scene hierarchy > doesn't always use the OSG LOD system the best way, and that taking advantage > of the LOD-bias feature would be very good. And hopefully quite a small, > centralised change! > > (To pick one example, I'd like to put *every* object on a tile into a > top-level LOD group, so that beyond a certain range we only render the base > BTG, and no static/shared objects at all - although I did see some commits in > this area from you back in the autumn, maybe this is already done now?) > >> >> The spt loader used in fgviewer also has lod hierarchies built in. You can >> already load - may be I need to push this series to the latest version - >> lower >> level of detail huger tiles if you put them into the right directories. >> That's >> in preparation and has no upstream support form the scenery yet. > > That sounds excellent, hopefully the work to generate lower-detail tiles is > also progressing. > > Regards, > James > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
