Well, my problem for 2 days (or was that 3?) has been a matter of generating the right random numbers! How do you like that?
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The impostor system is working very nicely, will be plenty fast and should give a pretty neat look as you fly around. Lots of (fake) detail as far as the eye can see.
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The problem was actually generating the points with an even distribution. Hard to explain very easily but it was good experience, I got to refresh my math skills, well develop them in the first place is probably more like it, especially calculus which I had to use a lot. I still missed something I think either in my models or my actual calculus, I don't know, but it's close enough for me.
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So last night I started the render-to-texture code; actually it doesn't use RTT. It's not strictly speaking realtime so speed doesn't matter that much, I'd rather have it maximum compatibilities than the 20% or so increase that RTT seems to give over my current technique. Also, the textures I'm genning are very small, like, 32 pixels or so, so it won't probably make a difference. glCopyTexSubImage2D is very very useful, and very easy to use...
2004-03-13