I developed a great super easy culling technique for terrain. I call it redundent culling. I basically consits of removing every other polygon. I wasn''t even trying to develope it and it just happend wow did my FPS shoot up.

Do you mean just leaving holes in the terrain? If so, your not the first. If not, what exactly do you mean?

Judging by the thumbs down icon he used, he might be exercising sarcasm

LOL yes I was sarcastic.
I thought I was going to get a bunch people explaning how they allready know this technique and have spent many months optimizing it to the extant they made some redundently complicated name like: RelativeGeoExclusion culling. This an example of the thing you want to post after 10 hours of staring at the a debug screen of DEATH.

My theory is that the more experienced programmer you are the more your hate for the debugger gets. Sure it might show you your problems and thats a good thing but that is just what the bully from elementry school does. There comes a point (maybe this is just me?) that you start to yell at the debugger, you try to think of ways to trick the debugger, you start to beg the debugger, and then you start to think of ways to bribe it.

Try offering it a cookie. Debuggers love cookies, especially with kiwirings and a cherries on top. Or, alternatively, watch Monty Python and use the confuse-a-cat method: for example you could try the dog-a-debugger or kick-a-bugger methods - very useful, tested and reliable. Or you could slam your teeth into the power cord - guaranteed to kill the debugger and give you the ride of a lifetime. It''s all in the neck, really - just watch out of the power cord - they''re real sleezy bastards, too - will definitely get you if you don''t keep your eyes open at all times. They usually go for the neck and exposed flesh. Do you have exposed flesh? If all else fails, take a walk in nature and talk to squirrels and things. Remeber, it''s all in the neck.

Crispy

The debugger is my friend too. Especially when it yells at me with a milion warnings and erros, i fix one curley brace and ALL of them go away. Anybody ever have it be nice like that? its kewl how it fixes all that for you just because you put one brace in...


baseball bat <---- next generation debugger

I tried that power cord thing... It didn''t work. I am on a friends computer now. I highly recomend not trying that first. Right now I am baking some of those cookies.

ME zapps debugger to recycle bin of hell,
replaces it with happy fun fun debugger.

I''ve grown to love my debugger. It has seemed to have done the same with me. We have a good relationship, and she seems to be behaving herself...

Death of one is a tragedy, death of a million is just a statistic.

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I''ve grown to love my debugger. It has seemed to have done the same with me. We have a good relationship, and she seems to be behaving herself...

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When''s the due date?