{"id":1493,"date":"2010-08-11T23:42:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T12:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2010-08-11T23:42:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T12:42:20","slug":"slow-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2010\/08\/11\/slow-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today I&#8217;ve made a few changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>vsMeshMaker no longer needs to specify the number of triangles in a model, before you start specifying those triangles. \u00a0Means that it&#8217;s really easy to just toss triangles in without thought, and have it come up with an optimised model at the end.<\/li>\n<li>vsMesh can now output vsFragments, instead of outputting vsDisplayLists. \u00a0If it outputs vsFragments, then the vsMesh may be deleted &#8212; all data storage is left in the vsFragments.<\/li>\n<li>MMORPG Tycoon 2&#8217;s procedural geometry algorithms now all use vsFragments, instead of vsDisplayLists. \u00a0However, they keep the vsMesh objects around, for ease of editing and ease of collision detection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next bit that I need is probably a way to merge two vsFragments together (with an optional transform applied). \u00a0This change would allow me to accumulate all of the geometry in a model into a single object, for rapid rendering.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the trees in the earlier screenshots were each composed of about 30-40 objects, one for each branch and sub-branch. \u00a0While this is great for a lot of things, it&#8217;s an awfully slow way to render the trees &#8212; really, I need to bake all of those vertices down into a single object, and then just render that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today I&#8217;ve made a few changes: vsMeshMaker no longer needs to specify the number of triangles in a model, before you start specifying those triangles. \u00a0Means that it&#8217;s really easy to just toss triangles in without thought, and have it come up with an optimised model at the end. vsMesh can now output vsFragments,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-o5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}