hi, lately i am very obsessed by the dungeon siege engine. my intention is to code something similar from the point of complexity and style. until know mi skills go from a lot of special effects, to model loading, bone animation and pure sw rendering. so i guess its time for something bigger.. a game engine. now my question: does anyone around here know how the dungeon siege engine works, what kidn of geometry management it uses and how it does its space partitioning? some hint about its collision detection would be cool too since i have no clue about collision detection at all, atm. thanks in advance best regeards johannes diemke

The dungeon siege engine works in a very cool way. I suggest going to www.dungeonsiege.com and grabbing the Siege Editor and reading some of the modding tutorials. It will go a along way to explain how the engine works. Its a complex engine, but as far as geometry management goes, the world is split into little blocks. The blocks are modelled by artists then linked together through the engine. The engine continually loads and unloads blocks as the players move. The links between the blocks are also used for pathfinding. If you read the dungeon siege postmortem at www.gamasutra.com, you may find some more of the information you are looking for.

I too and writing an engine that works on the same basic premise of the dungeon siege engine.

Good Luck!

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