>From: Marcus Lindblom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Juhana Sadeharju wrote: [ www.niftools.org / Gamebryo/Netimmerse / The game Oblivion ] > >I'd would think the content is pretty safely licensed/copyrighted by >Bethesda?
Yes. But nobody forbids the personal private use. I know academic people have written importers for Quake models in their academic engines. Because nowadays "academic" seems to mean purely commercial research, the private use should be no problem. >Oblivion uses SpeedTree for the vegetation, which is a separate lib and >thus has it's own separate data format which not stored in Gamebryo's >NIF-files. SpeedTree is commercial though, but it would be quite easy to >write a node for integration with OpenSG if one had access to the API. Openscenegraph has a plugin for SpeedTree. Url can be found at their webpage's plugin/node section. That kind of plugin would be useful for people who have licensed the SpeedTree. Running Oblivion's SpeedTree privately is tempting but not what I want. An open source free alternative would be needed in any case. Oblivion has a problem that modders cannot edit the trees without purchasing the expensive SpeedTreeCAD. So, I wrote a text-based tool http://www.funet.fi/~kouhia/spttools20060812.tar.gz for parsing and compiling the SPT files. The SPT file contains parameters for procedurally generated trees. The parameters are yet unknown but could be figured out by visually checking in Oblivion how a tree changes when a parameter is changed. SpeedTreeCAD itself could be used as well for creating the modified trees, but I have no access to SpeedTreeCAD. I just did read that Oblivion does not use LODs for distant objects. That means the objects pop-up with their full model. This is really strange because other games have used LODs successfully. However the modders have generated the distant LODs theirself (the Almost Everything mod). That is possible because the NIF format is a scenegraph and the scenegraph has the LOD node. Shows how powerful the scenegraphs are. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Opensg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-users
