Blitz Terrains or Mesh Terrains?

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xmlspy (Posted 2004) [#1]

I'm concerned about Blitz Terrains, are they faster to render than an imported .3ds terrain made in something like ALE? or other applications?

ZombieWoof (Posted 2004) [#2]

Its gotta get converted to a mesh at some point, wether blitz loads a heightmap and creates the mesh, or an app like ALE does the work... but then apps like ALE optimize the mesh when they export... soooooooooo...... Gimme ALE :)

Zethrax (Posted 2004) [#3]

Blitz terrains have level of detail control, though, whereas a custom terrain wouldn't, unless you were using custom code to achieve this.

RayTracer (Posted 2004) [#4]

i switched do mesh terrain so i will be able to use Tokamak with it ,1000 verts has almost no impact on performance

mrtricks (Posted 2004) [#5]

1000 verts means your terrain is only 33x33 though... Guess it depends what you want it for.

sswift (Posted 2004) [#6]

Mesh terrains will always be better than Blitz terrains, except where ease of implementation comes in. With a mesh terrain you have have much more varied texturing, greater texture detail, and greater ground detail at higher framerates. It's all in the implementation.