GroundUpEngine Development [7.5] Terrain Benchmark

[remco138]

nice work hebron, i do have 1 question about the wireframe(and dots?)

do you have seperate vbo's for them?

since changing the GL_TRIANGLES to a GL_LINE* creates ugly graphical glitches

[hebronsawyers]

@remco138 Noooo way, thats overkill bro..

Calling function - glPolygonMode(GL_FRONT_AND_BAC­K, GL_FILL);

GL_FILL is default and everything is rendered normally, GL_POINT is everything rendered just points and GL_LINE is lines. Easy eh? I believe others use this technique too =)

[Acefangamestudio]

dude how did u make ur opening?

[hebronsawyers]

@Acefangamestudio Trial version of Adobe After Effects CS4 :P

[superant10000]

Unless this is a stationary artillery game, the map is a little... erm...

Hard to navigate?

If you wanted a player to walk around in that , you would end up very dissappointed with the feedback. Just sayin.

[hebronsawyers]

@superant10000 I hear ya dog, but I'll "splain" to ya!

With around 60 fps, your movement is SMOOTH on my Engine. I'm recording this insane benchmark which a screen recorder at the same time as moving around, so my computer was freakin' out just a little... 1-5 Fps-ish

[superant10000]

@superant10000 Yeah man I think that the fps is really good and everything, I was just saying that the map itself was kinda bad for most types of game lol. Unless it's like 1:500 scale O_O

[hebronsawyers]

@superant10000 ofcourse hehe

[1dantheman100]

k. your godly lol. 1m faces? please explain

[hebronsawyers]

@1dantheman100 hehe, Thanks!

Ok basically if I draw the terrain normally ->

- I have to use new data for the polygons every frame

- Which is painfully slow when I have say.. 1m faces

But with the OpenGL VBO's (Vertex Buffer Object) ->

- I can save all the data for the polygons I need to draw later once

- Which means when I have 1m faces, the full power of one's computer can be focuses on drawing the terrain and not handling the colossal amount of data, in other words... Sexy Time! :D:D

[keithgarry]

holy shit

[hebronsawyers]

@keithgarry aha!

I literally thought that when the code actually worked! Good times :D

[WSPSNIPER2]

nice, 1m faces! VOB must be working nicely lol, the height mapping worked out nice. Did you do the texturing by checking the height the putting the right texture ( snow caps on the top of the mountians ) or did you just have a texture that fit right? either way great job keep it up

[hebronsawyers]

@WSPSNIPER2 Thanks!

Ye I had a Texture that fit right for the height map, VBO's ftw :)

[vblazenka146]

Good work...Keep it up! :D

[MrDeathNote1988]

Nice job my friend, looks great :)

[blackcoder41]

Nice.

[quickshot14]

very awsome and a great step man! Detail does look great and heightmaps are sooo usefull for creating terrian. Awsome stuff!

[eatcomics]

Evanesence :D haven't heard this song in a loooong time, and also awesome terrain :D

[davidthefat]

Now try ray tracing

[mv2112mv]

Looks Cool! Wish i could make a 3d engine. 0_o

[hebronsawyers]

@mv2112mv Thanks!

I think your Engine is pretty tight! Learn 3d graphics in your own time, so you can apply them to your Engine/Game programming skills in future ;)