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Ddredar

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Posted: 19th Dec 2003 23:51

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What is the max size that a matrix be? such as:

max width
max depth
max x tiles
max ztiles

And at what size would the matrix become unstable?

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Ddredar

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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 00:22

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and one more thing. Is the matrix command simalar to an arry in the way it uses memory?

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spooky

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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 00:34

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Matrices used to have a limit but with latest DBPro patches, there is no limit. However having anything over 100 by 100 tiles is not a good idea and things start slowing down. Best bet is to have a smaller matrix and use the shift matrix commands to give impression of larger landscape.

My alien compo entry has a matrix 79 * 79 tiles with each tile 100 * 100 units. The game level is however 300 * 300 tiles. The idea being to detect when player crosses a tile border, shift the matrix one tile and rebuild the matrix edge from a level array. In the array I store the matrix texture numbers, heights and normals.

I have no idea how matrices are stored in memory. Does it matter?

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Ddredar

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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 00:47

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Thanks for the info.

Memory usage would only matter if the matrix command used up memory as dynamicly as an array.

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