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Dark GDK / Tiles in huge terrain

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Niels Henriksen
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Posted: 28th Jan 2009 00:16
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I'm sitting with T-ED and making a terrain (just a demo terrain) and exporting it to a lot of x-files. So far I have 16.

My idea is to use 9 tiles at the time and turn them on/off during gameplay.

But to load 16 tiles takes some time and I'm a fraid of how long time it will take with 10.000 tiles. So my plan is to load the nesseary tiles during gameplay....

But... how to do that best? Any ideas?

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Zuka
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Posted: 28th Jan 2009 00:53
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As you come within visibility of the next tile, load the necessary one...?
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Posted: 28th Jan 2009 03:35
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Quote: "I'm a fraid of how long time it will take with 10.000 tiles."


Wait, you want to load your terrain as 10,000 different tiles?!??! Wouldn't you better off with, like, 16 tiles? 10,000 seems like a bit much.

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Zuka
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Posted: 28th Jan 2009 04:52
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But AndrewT is right. Why the heck would you need that many? I'm guessing they average about a megabyte. That's 9.75 or so gigabytes. That is a lot.
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Niels Henriksen
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Posted: 28th Jan 2009 11:52
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Wait, you want to load your terrain as 10,000 different tiles?!??! Wouldn't you better off with, like, 16 tiles? 10,000 seems like a bit much.
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Each tile is 500x500 but maybe I should make it bigger?

I'm using a 9x9 matrix:

123
456
789

The player are on tile 5. When he moves toward tile 6 then i will turn off tile 1,4,7 and turn on tiles after 3,6,9.

that means that I need to load 3 tiles at the time. He can only see 1 tile ahead but when he is at the border of 5 and 6 he can actually only see to the border of 6.

The problem is the loadtime. When I do it with plane object there are no problems because its so fast...

But I will try to make the tiles bigger...

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Posted: 28th Jan 2009 12:52
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use a seperate thread for loading
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Niels Henriksen
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Posted: 28th Jan 2009 18:01
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@bjadams: Hmm..... why didnt I see that? Thanks

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Posted: 28th Jan 2009 22:16
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Oh god. Do not use matrices. It's easier to set up and manipulate the vertices yourself.
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Niels Henriksen
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Posted: 28th Jan 2009 23:04
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@Zuka - Yes... if you know how to

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hey how did you get 10000 tiles in T.ED?

the maximum it lets you do is 16x16=256 tiles

dont hate people who rip you off,cheat and get away with it, learn from them
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Niels Henriksen
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2009 09:41
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@Pagan - I havent got that .... it was just a number to show that when I mean huge.... i mean huge

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