I've uploaded the code & demo for Texture LOD, as well as the textures in the screenshots. The algorithm works really well if you give it enough texture space...
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bryan.turner@...
Dec 1, 2000 3:02 am
Hello all, So I picked up a copy of "Sacrifice" the other day, and spent a few hours playing with it. First of all, the game is excellent, do pick up the demo...
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Sterling Jackson
sterlingjackson@...
Dec 1, 2000 5:02 am
Very nice appearances, the graphics are done rather well. You don't get the overly real sense, that is experienced in some games, e.g. Square's FFVIII. ...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Dec 1, 2000 11:40 pm
Thanks Bryan for pointing out this fascinating game terrain. ... Indeed, it does. ... Well, keep in mind that it's a high-speed action game - i'd say that for ...
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Michal Kracik
kracik@...
Dec 4, 2000 5:41 pm
Hi, I'm trying to implement ROAM algorithm (http://www.llnl.gov/graphics/ROAM/) and I don't understand the described error metric, or upper bound of...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Dec 4, 2000 11:14 pm
This subject was discussed heavily on the GDAlgo mailing list. I mailed a bunch of those postings to Michal below. For those interested, you may want to go...
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Michal Kracik
kracik@...
Dec 5, 2000 2:46 pm
Thanks, I found a good explanation of the error metric there. Unfortunately, the discussions also show that implementing ROAM will be much more difficult than...
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Clint Brewer
clint@...
Dec 5, 2000 6:17 pm
... Ha! yes, it is a little difficult, but stick with it, it only takes a few weekends of heavy though. and the final payoff is very good :) -clint...
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Pallister, Kim
kim.pallister@...
Dec 12, 2000 7:06 pm
... And (4) to ship on time and on budget, or reasonably close to that. And I agree, it's an awesome title from a gamers perspective. Good fun. KP...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Dec 23, 2000 4:18 am
Hello VTP list members, Some of you may have noticed that it's been rather quiet on this list for some time, and that the last VTP release was 7 months ago....
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Dec 24, 2000 9:59 pm
I have uploaded a very preliminary development release of the VTP software. Please give it a try if you have: * A fast Win32 machine with at least 128MB RAM *...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Dec 25, 2000 1:26 am
I have compiled a list of known bugs and feature requests for the VTP software: http://vterrain.org/Implementation/status.html -Ben...
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Andras Sarkozy
andrass9@...
Dec 25, 2000 7:49 pm
Hi, Enviro-Data.zip download finishes after about 200KBytes and it is not a valid ZIP archive. Tried several times from several machine/IP. Any idea how can I...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Jan 7, 2001 7:36 pm
I tried to download the file myself, and encountered the same problem. FTP upload and download is fine, but HTTP download seems to choke, as you say, at...
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Javier Abadia Miranda
jabadia@...
Jan 8, 2001 11:59 am
Tried to download demo, but TerrainMaps.zip link seems to be broken. ... Javier Abadía Miranda \ ESPELSA - Division STC Ingeniero en Informática \...
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John Barstow
jbarstow@...
Jan 9, 2001 1:49 am
Ben- I've been having the same problem; all the other files have downloaded fine. You might try uploading the file to the eGroups file area, could also try ...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Jan 9, 2001 2:52 am
After much wrangling, as a workaround i have moved the files to a FTP server. The links should all work for everyone now, please let me know if you're still...
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John Barstow
jbarstow@...
Jan 9, 2001 7:42 pm
Well, after a lot of failed attempts, I think I've come up with a way to combine a ROAM-style engine with my physics engine. All the high-performance collision...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Jan 10, 2001 9:26 pm
You may have noticed that although the VTP code can generate polygonal roads from the raw centline data, it does not generate road intersections at all. This...
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Curtis L. Olson
curt@...
Jan 10, 2001 10:01 pm
... This is really vague I know but some guy down at the "university of iowa" or "iowa state university" or "iowa something university" was working on these...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Jan 10, 2001 11:56 pm
... That's believable, since the only reference i have to hand-modeled intersections (http://vterrain.org/Culture/roadrail.html) was work done at the...
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Norman Vine
nhv@...
Jan 11, 2001 1:17 am
... roads ... markings ... Yep... correct thick lines like polygons are a tough problem. FWIW This is fairly similar to 'buffer zones' of a given width in GIS ...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Jan 15, 2001 7:38 am
I would like to get your feedback on a major challenge and design issue that i've been wrestling with. The question is, when designing a descriptive...
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Pierre Cousin
pierre.cousin@...
Jan 15, 2001 2:02 pm
Hello, I'm following what goes on VTP with some interrest, since it directly relates with what we are doing at TTS. In this specific instance may be I can help...
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Bryan Turner
bryan.turner@...
Jan 16, 2001 1:55 am
Ben, I worked for SAS Institute for several years, so the importance of unknown values was hammered into me quite thuroughly. The SAS statistical package...
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Ivan Lee Herring
ilh2o@...
Jan 16, 2001 3:56 am
it is an ageold question... I support 3: Input known data and have a variable choice for unknown or a selected range for the numerics... using a -1 or 0 can...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Jan 16, 2001 11:24 pm
... I hadn't really looked at SEDRIS in depth before you mentioned it. It is fascinating project, highly recommended for list members to look at: ...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Jan 16, 2001 11:34 pm
... Property_Characteristics ... It appears that SEDRIS does not enforce a cohesive approach to uncertainty; the sentinel values are only defined in the...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Jan 18, 2001 10:44 am
I have placed new download content at: http://vterrain.org/Download/ In addition to the source and data, there are now also pre-built binaries for users who...
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Ben Discoe
ben@...
Jan 26, 2001 3:06 am
New content on http://vterrain.org/ 01.01.25 more on GPS devices in Data Collection 01.01.23 added section on rocks new: Representing Unknown Values 01.01.22...
