ROAM...whats is all about?

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Started by Lloyd Wright January 17, 2001 07:38 PM

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January 17, 2001 07:38 PM

lo Real-time Optimally Adapting Meshes (ROAM).....has anyone used it, or knows much about it. I found out tonight that Halo uses ROAM for the landscape, so it must be quite good? Lloyd

Alan Kemp

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January 17, 2001 11:23 PM

ROAM is a really nice algorithm. Basically you feed it with a height map covering a huge chunk of world, tell it where the player is, and how many triangles to use, and it makes a mesh based on all those things. Its fast enough to run in realtime (as halo does). There is a article on gamasutra that covers it here: article.

Alan

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