Thanks to some help from Kelvin from Sun we got terrain splatting working. You need to use an ordered group, not a decal group if you want to get a zbuffer test of <=. The decal group disables the zbuffer test completely.
Here are some screenshots: http://www.magicosm.net/screenshots/cosm900.jpg http://www.magicosm.net/screenshots/cosm901.jpg http://www.magicosm.net/screenshots/cosm903.jpg It seems to really soak up the framerate, but we have not really analyzed the performance issues yet. These pics are taken on a Geforce 4 ti 4600. Also, the rock texture is doing the pics an injustice since it it is being scaled up quite high from a lower level. The engine can also render without splatting: http://www.magicosm.net/screenshots/cosm905.jpg I think we can improve the "non splatting" look by dynamically building higher res textures on demand (Thanks Justin for the idea), but the splatting approach guarantees our engine will scale for the future. Dave =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
