I have not spent a huge amount of time on this project this week, due to the work I have been doing on P136. However I have done some research into the final terrain paging and chunked level of detail issues that I have been having, and on the terrain resolution and performance.<\/p>\n
There does seem to be a flaw in the algorithm that I am using for the terrain system. I believed originally that increasing the resolution of the terrain would fix the paging issues, by increasing the density of the terrain (and therefore reducing the size of the nodes).<\/p>\n
This is because the issue is, I believe, caused by the node boundaries not being included in the subdivisions. I am only including the closest node in the search at the highest levels, so if the player is standing near a node boundary, the nodes across that boundary will not be subdivided.<\/p>\n
To fix this, I will have to abandon the idea of searching though only the closest node at the highest tiers, and adopt a distance based system for all nodes, similiar to what I do for the lowest nodes.<\/p>\n
If a node is within a certain distance of the player, it will be subdivided, regardless of how many nodes from that tier are already being subdivided. I think this concept should work, but it could take some time to implement and test it.<\/p>\n
In addition to the issues with terrain paging, I have noticed problem with performance \u00a0at higher terrain resolution levels. As well as taking a long time to generate the terrain, the framerate is quite low, even at moderate detail levels. It is possible that this issue will be fixed when I fix the terrain paging issues, however.<\/p>\n
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