Re: [pygame] Fun with C modules

[Richard Jones <richardjones@optushome.com.au>]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 20:03, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Richard Jones wrote:
> >So I can't _change_ the landscape, and now I understand why that doesn't
> >happen in games. Instead of stuffing my triangles into the octree, I just
> >stuffed them into a display list. Frame rate went up from 42fps to 88fps.
> >Without me converting any of the tris to tristrips.
>
> You could have the landscape divided into, say, 16 pieces (4x4) and thus
> have 16 lists. Then use some simplified culling code to only draw those
> parts that are visible. Could save you some time. Or maybe not, I haven't
> tried that yet, but I will do it for my terrain stuff.

I just converted the landscape to tristrips, and gained another 25% speedup. 
Time to start worrying about other parts of the code, and stop optimising :)


    Richard
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