cliptexture, asd, hardware ?

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Randy Sims (randal.sims++at++srs.gov)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:13:26 -0500


I'm trying to understand in 2.2 what's applicable and useful for
non-InfiniteReality hardware like (Max)Impact with regards to
ClipTextures and ASD for terrain visualization application.

First, in the Programmer's Guide, there's this paragraph in "Texture
Memory and Hardware Support Checking" ...

    During the checking phase, IRIS Performer also checks to see if
    cliptextures are supported in hardware on the system. To
    cliptexture properly, the clipped levels need hardware support. If
    cliptexturing isn't supported, then the cliptexture is
    reconfigured so only the unclipped, pyramid levels are loaded, and
    indicates to the system that the texture is a normal MIPmap. The
    rest of the cliptexture support is unchanged. This means that
    image caches in the pyramid levels will still work. This feature
    allows the application writer to run and do some testing of
    cliptexturing applications even if the system it's run on doesn't
    support cliptexturing.

Would someone explain more fully ...

         The rest of the cliptexture support is unchanged.

and "this means" ...

    ... that image caches in the pyramid levels will still work. This
    feature allows the application writer to run and do some testing
    of cliptexturing applications even if the system it's run on
    doesn't support cliptexturing.

Next in ASD, ...

        An ASD node may very likely have more than one texture in it,
        so it contains more than one pfGeoState; one for each
        texture. gstateid specifies the pfGeoState object the triangle
        face uses.

I'm confused here. What happens with multiple textures with associated
automatic texture coordinate generation through pfTexGen?

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