Hi! I''ve uploaded a my new project. It''s a warcraft III like terrain editor, or should I say...it will be in the future... It has only simple functions for now ( and I''m still working on the menu ) like terrain rising and lowering, and tree planting... So, i''d like to ask you if you''d download it and test it to tell me how it runs on your machines...and give me your critics, and sugestions, naturaly.. Thanks in advance follow the yellow brick road

it would be nice to give us a link

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http://undying_lands0.tripod.com/game.zip

sorry


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Your thing is pretty good overall ....... but the framerate is a little low (10 fps) with my GeForce 4 Ti 4200

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yes, i know...i''ve made a pretty dense terrain mesh, but the real reason it runs so slow it that for every change on the terrain the editor calculates normals, shadowing and such...when the map will be loaded in the game it''ll have all the shadows and normals already saved and it woun''t need to calculate them...

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very cool.. could use it to make a nice sentinal type game :D

works pretty good from what i can tell... a couple of suggestions though-
1.) you may want to adjust your camera''s height based on the terrain directly beneath it. right now, if you try to make a large hill or whatnot, it plays hell with your near clipping plane.
2.) you may also want to have some other terrain "tools" for creating steeper hills/cliffs/whatnot, then maybe a LERPing tool to smooth things off and fine tune existing hills
3.) your framerate is the pits.. try upping the size of your tri''s, (maybe throw some LOD in there too). that''ll save you on both fillrate and geometry. also- how are you doing your lighting? try disabling your lights and see how your framerate improves. if thats the case, you should precompute shadows on your texture
4.) eventually you may want to have some sort of auto-texturing algo. grass is nice and all, but...
5.) apparently you''re using a quadtree for your terrain right now, the border tiles arent being drawn properly- ie) verts that are supposed to be drawn arent "in" your quadtree.



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