Map created with Tiles

[serega-kkz]

@Thaumaturge

Why? If Panda provides a sufficient implementation, why should one re-invent that?

Once again, Panda3D does this in isolation from reality. For example, it generates shaders on the fly when it is not asked to do so…

[Dotoro]

Thank You!!! This will help.

[Dotoro]

It fit Perfect! Thanks again, why don’t i think about this earlier, blank geoms it’s work perfect.
Big plus i can control geoms visibility thru ECS.

[serega-kkz]

I have demonstrated this approach in detail with the ability to edit tiles.

Terrain's edit tiles system

Example of tiles implementation in terrane. You have two arrays (storage_chunk and terrain_chunk), one does not participate in rendering, it just stores data as a DataChunk class. The second one is actually a NodePath repository, it participates in rendering. The update method of the Terrain class calculates the coordinates of fragments around the spectator (camera) based on the position and checks if there are fragments with such coordinates in storage_hunk. If there are any, it adds such a f…

For those who are arguing, I will not show who… as an alternative, you can implement it in a different way - using the features built into Panda3D.

[Thaumaturge]

@serega-kkz

Once again, Panda3D does this in isolation from reality. For example, it generates shaders on the fly when it is not asked to do so…

I don’t think that it generates shaders unless one actually activates the auto-shader–and that can be done on specific nodes, if desired, allowing control over where shaders are made.

And beyond that, the auto-shader allows the developer to not worry about shaders, should they so desire; if the developer just wants standard shaders for their scene, Panda allows them to get that without having to make their own.

For other, less-optional elements (like culling), I’d argue that it is, for most, preferable to have such things be handled by the engine.

After all, the purpose of an engine is to allow the developer to focus on the actual game-code, and not the underlying technical stuff (or at least, to a greater degree than without).

[serega-kkz]

@Thaumaturge

I don’t think that it generates shaders unless one actually activates the auto-shader–and that can be done on specific nodes, if desired, allowing control over where shaders are made.

And beyond that, the auto-shader allows the developer to not worry about shaders, should they so desire; if the developer just wants standard shaders for their scene, Panda allows them to get that without having to make their own.

Reading your message, for some reason, I remembered this post.

Chug caused by render.setShaderAuto()

Hi all, I am loading some models asynchronously and it works splendidly. I need to have shadows in my scene and so I’m using Panda3d’s shadowCaster system. This means that I have to use the auto shader: render.setShaderAuto, which also means that even though the model is loaded asynchronously, there will be a noticeable chug when a model is first added into the scene as explained by David: My question is, is there any way to circumvent this, while still using the auto-shader, since the time D…

I came up with another life hack to overcome this, if you don’t use culling nodes, set the camera’s field of view to 90 degrees before starting the game and rotate 360 degrees along the X and Z axes.