{"id":3259,"date":"2014-06-24T18:26:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T08:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2014-06-24T18:26:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T08:26:23","slug":"youve-seen-one-tree-youve-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2014\/06\/24\/youve-seen-one-tree-youve-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;ve seen one tree, you&#8217;ve seen them all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Tree_Instancing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Tree_Instancing-300x238.png\" alt=\"Tree_Instancing\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Tree_Instancing-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Tree_Instancing.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Especially when you&#8217;re viewing them from several kilometers above.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the first screenshot of MMORPG Tycoon 2 running with mesh instancing support for trees (as well as buildings, although not many buildings are visible here).\u00a0 In this screenshot, 488 trees are visible (my debugging information tells me;\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t actually count them).\u00a0 As noted yesterday, there&#8217;s no visible difference to frame rate, even in this unoptimised debug build, which is awesome news, as far as I&#8217;m concerned!\u00a0 I&#8217;m particularly pleased to have it successfully hooked into the game&#8217;s culling system, so even though we can easily afford to draw about 500 trees, we still only bother to actually draw the ones which might be visible to the player.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few architectural issues I need to fix up, still;\u00a0 in this build, it actually draws all the trees multiple times, if you&#8217;ve activated more than one region.\u00a0 Which obviously isn&#8217;t really what we want;\u00a0 just drawing them once would be ideal.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll be fixing that bug, and will then get subscribers and monsters converted over to use instanced rendering as well.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also noticed a bug in the positioning of text inside pop-up tooltips (not visible in this screenshot);\u00a0 that&#8217;s probably come from my refactoring of how VectorStorm handles positioning of models and sprites.\u00a0 My goal for tomorrow is to have a screenshot showing a full map with at least 10,000 trees in it.\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n<p>Once all of that is working, I&#8217;ll release this as a new RenderTech build (hopefully before the end of the week), and then it&#8217;ll be time to get back to working on gameplay mechanics:\u00a0 quest editing for MS5!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Especially when you&#8217;re viewing them from several kilometers above. Here&#8217;s the first screenshot of MMORPG Tycoon 2 running with mesh instancing support for trees (as well as buildings, although not many buildings are visible here).\u00a0 In this screenshot, 488 trees are visible (my debugging information tells me;\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t actually count them).\u00a0 As noted yesterday,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Thumb1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-Qz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}