On 18 Sep 2013, at 16:16, Stuart Buchanan <stuar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Command, questions and offers of help to update some object masks are
> all welcome :)
All sounds good, there is a related issue that came up on IRC:
It would really help memory use if we could defer tree/object/building
generation until the tile is close to the viewer. Right now you generate lots
of LOD nodes so we don't pay the rendering cost for distant tiles, but we're
still paying a memory cost and loading time hit.
The ideal approach is to use PagedLOD, i.e let the osgDB pager do the job it's
intended for. So the base tile would have a PagedLOD which loads the building /
trees / objects when the LOD threshold trips, with the usual queuing system and
unloading. What this needs is to make a pseudo-file-name for to add to the
loader, which causes a custom osgDB ReaderWriter to run. (Likely with a custom
Options instance set specifying any parameter data needed for the tile - is
there any? I can't recall) That ReaderWriter can then return the root osg::Node
for the trees/buildings/objects as we already do.
(Mathias switched the tile object models to use such a PagedLOD back at the
start of the year, and it's worked very well, I would say - there is a tiny
amount of popping when starting up, but almost no visible popping after that)
I hope this is a relatively small refactoring, but potentially with a big
benefit for memory use, and much cheaper loading of distant tiles
(BTW Adrian proposed something which achieves a similar end result back in
February, the problem with his approach is it doesn't work via the OSG paging
mechanism, and hence I don't think we should pursue it - ultimately we need to
be letting the OSG Pager handle all our loading and unloading, instead of
trying to fit our own LOD systems above / below it)
Regards,
James
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