Re: advice on using Performer

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David Weller (dweller++at++rivatech.com)
Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:31:43 -0500 (CDT)

> How about taking a look at Dave Luebke's portal culling
> instead of the BSP.
>
> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~luebke/visibility.html
>
> I have used it for a ship walkthru and it works great.
> I have a version that uses OpenGL instead of IRIS gl
> which you may wnat to use on an Octane.
> Andy
>

Oh, great. Now we muddy up the Performer vs. OpenGL Optimizer issue
even more :-)

Honestly, I wish both the Performer and OpenGL Optimizer FAQs would
have a discussion about which is more appropriate for a given app.
I'm much more inclined to use OpenGL Optimizer for walkthrus, but
since OGLO is so new, I don't see as much model support as I do for
Performer (I can only determine there's a loader for Wavefront/Alias
.obj format and the .iv format, any others?).

There doesn't seem to be much "Cross-feed" between the Performer and
OGLO camps other than "Yeah, we know about that other group".

Perhaps Mike Jones, or somebody from the OGLO camp, would be kind
enough to clear up this matter?
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