Large Digital Terrain Management

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Luigi Rella (rella++at++aguirre.ing.unifi.it)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:28:04 +0100


How can I build a large textured digital terrain model to improve performance
of my machine?

I have a large digital model highly detailed.
Presently I build the terrain dividing it in N x M sub-models grid (like a
chessboard) and attach each sub-model under a matrix of pfSCS.

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Starting from a sub-model I obtain two new less-detailed sub-models through
 sub-sampling of the original one. These three sub-models then are attached to
a pfLOD that manages the long distance parts of the terrain.

                     pfSCS
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      -------------- pfLOD ------------
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sub-model i sub-model i sub-model i
(low detail) (medium detail) (high detail)

On each sub-model (at all resolution), I apply a satellite image of the terrain
as a texture.

Without textures I have a frame rate of 15 Hz and the navigation is quite good.
But when I apply the textures I obtain very poor performance.

Someone have suggestion to improve the performance?
Can I build the model in a different way?
How can I manage the texture to have the low occupation of TRAM?

Thank in advance.

I'm running pf2.1 on a Indigo2 with R10K, Irix 6.2, 1 TRAM , 128MB RAM.

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