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Newcomers DBPro Corner / advanced Terrain poly reducing

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OnQue Int
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Posted: 29th Jan 2009 23:01
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Is there a way to reduce the poly for advanced terrain and is there a why to hide all faces not facing camera so they are not counted
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lucifer 1101
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Posted: 30th Jan 2009 01:13
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hiding faces not seen is called occlusion culling, look into it...
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AndrewT
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Posted: 30th Jan 2009 12:37
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Quote: "is there a why to hide all faces not facing camera so they are not counted "


If you mean hide all faces that are actually pointing away from the camera, that already happens by default, it's called backface culling. However if you mean hide the faces that are behind hills or other faces, that's called occlusion culling as lucifer 1101 pointed out.

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James H
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Posted: 30th Jan 2009 14:11
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Or if you mean anything thats outside the camera viewing frustrum(what the camera isn`t looking at), there is always Lost in thoughts Advanced Terrain frustrum culling, herehttp://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=67369&b=6
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