Performance Art 4: Always use a texture and bones ain't free.

Modelling and texturing for performance

Arno Gerretsen — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:34:16 GMT

Of course every designer has read the excellent blog posts by Adrian Woods on how to optimize your performance

re: Performance Art 4: Always use a texture and bones ain't free.

Darren Vincent — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:48:31 GMT

Really appreciating all the fascinating information you're providing here Adrian.. please keep it up. I've been particularly interested in your posts on the batching processes, and would be very keen to learn even more about it, especially on how not to break it ( which does seem a little easy to do).

re: Performance Art 4: Always use a texture and bones ain't free.

Francois — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:40:19 GMT

Hi Adrian,

the discussion of bones by Kevin on the DevCon was very helpful, so is your reiteration of it here. We DO want to have animated shapes in FSX bt don't want to kill the fun at the same time... tough work! ;-)

Francois

re: Performance Art 4: Always use a texture and bones ain't free.

Joey Sipos — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:04:44 GMT

Thanks for the discussion of bones. I have been experimenting making trees with bones for a while now. So far the effect looks pretty cool. The trees only annimate with bones at LOD_90 so the frame rate seems fairly friendly - although I have not tested with many trees at once yet. We shall see and now I'll be sure to keep bones at a minimum.