GeoMipTerrain Issues

Scripting Issues
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First off let me say that I love this implementation of GeoMipMap algorithm. I implemented it myself once for another engine, but not nearly as well.

A couple of small issues I have noticed:

  1. When using a NodePath with SetFocalPoint e.g. terrain.setFocalPoint(base.camera) the terrain does not update properly if the terrain is scaled in the x and/or y directions, but it does if using terrain.setFocalPoint(base.camera.getPos()). This is not exactly a bug, but I think it might be better if both methods gave the same result.

  2. I am using a terrain splatting shader with my terrain. If I try to use setAutoFlatten, I lose the texturing (terrain gets rendered pure white) and performance plummets. I assume this is because the textures (and possibly the shader) I have set for the terrain are not applied to the flattened terrain. Is there any way around this?

Thanks, and Merry Christmas!

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  1. Hmm, thanks for reporting. I thought I’d fixed this before, but there seems to be a different issue. I’ll work on it.
    On a sidenote: does terrain.setFocalPoint(base.camera.getPos(terrain.getRoot()) work properly?

  2. This is a known problem. I hope to have time to fix this soon. The way around is to make a function to texture it, and call this function every time update() returns more than 0.

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  1. That gives the same result as using the NodePath. i.e. focal point doesn’t scale properly.

  2. Ahhh, so retuxturing will fix it. Good to know.

Thanks for the prompt reply.