{"id":958,"date":"2009-11-22T00:41:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T13:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=958"},"modified":"2009-11-22T00:42:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T13:42:06","slug":"today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/11\/22\/today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I converted all Region-placed objects in MMORPG Tycoon 2 to render via the region&#8217;s octree. \u00a0This includes buildings, roads, monsters, player characters, and AI developers. \u00a0This basically means that any objects which aren&#8217;t at least vaguely in front of the camera won&#8217;t use up time being drawn by the graphics card.<\/p>\n<p>The player himself, his GraveShip, and his mouse cursor are not constrained within a single region, and so are still not rendering via an octree. \u00a0The terrain itself also is not covered by the octree; \u00a0it has its own system for accomplishing a similar task.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I should be able to try out a forest, and see what performance on it is going to be like. \u00a0Crossing fingers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I converted all Region-placed objects in MMORPG Tycoon 2 to render via the region&#8217;s octree. \u00a0This includes buildings, roads, monsters, player characters, and AI developers. \u00a0This basically means that any objects which aren&#8217;t at least vaguely in front of the camera won&#8217;t use up time being drawn by the graphics card. The player himself,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-fs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958"}],"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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}