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DarkSSJ
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Can I use them in DBPro to speed-up my games? If yes how can I use them?
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MrTAToad
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Pretty sure you can't use any of them...

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DarkSSJ
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This is a bad thing... :-(

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MrTAToad
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Not really.

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Rob K
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BSPs are the only real implementation of these kind of technologies atm. You can do portals and occlusion - try Visible Worlds from underware design (www.uwdesign.com)

Current Project: Retro Compo. Entry.
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ZKAT8IT
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as for octrees, its possible, ive done something just like it, cutting the world into cubes and only render the portion on the world your in and can see, i built a level editor that allows you to buils worlds based on octrees, its not complete but its based on this principal

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 27th Apr 2003 04:52 Edited at: 27th Apr 2003 04:55
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Octree's
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Currently DBpro doesn't feature inbuilt rendering optimization from octree's. But it's meant to be coming soon (perhaps patch 5 or 6) . This is only suitable for static environments.

You can roll your own octree based occlusion code for dynamic objects though.


Portals + Occulsion.
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Portal rendering is an currently supported through BSP's internally.

You can use tools like Visible Worlds to achieve a similar results. The primary difference being that Visible Worlds is based on a dynamic object solution rather than a per polygon solution.

http://www.visworlds.underwaredesign.com

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MrTAToad
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I stand corrected... Even someone as great as me sometimes gets things wrong...

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*gasp*

The world is ending ...
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Shadow Robert
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:: snikkers ::

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Rob K
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"Even someone as great as me sometimes gets things wrong..."

And next the Iraqi Information Minister will turn up and admit that Iraq lost the war.

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Shadow Robert
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they've not lost yet ... its just a minor occupation, nothing to worry about.

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DarkSSJ
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Does Patch 5 have these features?
DirectX 9 support hardware occlusion, it be cool to use it in DBPro!

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DMXtra
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Upgrade 6 will support Octrees/portals. I will have to ask about hardware occlusion.

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