On Thursday 27 November 2003 22:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, i found it now. :) > > It is called "Planet engine" and can be downloaded here: > http://drtypo.free.fr/download.html > > But there are also some bad news, i was wrong, it is only freeware not open > source. :( > It also doesn't run on linux but a linux port should be possible > because the engine uses OpenGL and SDL. > > But the good news are, that it shows very nicly how you can move seemlessly > from the ground into > an orbit without framerate drops or big losses at the detail. > Such a LOD system would be very great for Flightgear, > IMO Flightgear should have something similar. :) > > > > If you download it, make sure that you choose the appropriate > version of that engine for your videocard. > The newest version (0.705) does not run on old videocards. > And the old versions need at least a videocard with a vertex shader > (Geforce, Radeon 7500). >
I also want to mention, that those links that are available on the link page of that project could be very helpfull for creating a LOD system for Flightgear. http://drtypo.free.fr/links.html Especially those ones could be very informative for using a LOD system with planet based rendering: http://www.chem.pwf.cam.ac.uk/~jdh30/programming/opengl/lod/index.html http://baddoggames.com/planet/index.htm http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~dh/research.html Best Regards, Oliver C. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
