T3D Flight-Sim

#1 Hmmmm, radio silence on this thread. C'mon guys, what's your thoughts here. I'd be particularly interested in hearing from Development SE's on this, as well as Torque SE's... I should also apologize for the vagueness of this thread, but being at the beginning of my project, and new to T3D, I am thinking in very broad strokes.

thx,

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#2 First off keep your terrain detail reasonable for your game. You could create a 1024x1024 height map in Torque 3D using a 12 meters per pixel scale. That gives you a 12288km x 12288km terrain... which is pretty damn big.

Second i would write my own specialized threaded manager for loading in mission files dynamically as you move around the environment.

#3 @Duey,

I am doing the same thing, but I have run into a few snags. One issue with doing large worlds is the precision. If you have objects at high coordinates in the world (10000+) and this includes aircraft flying around, the objects start to jitter/shake and data gets lost. Another issue is large view distances, if you want to be able to view a realistic distance on a clear day, the depth buffer doesnt handle that very well.

@Tom,
Actually, that would only be 12.28km x 12.28 km. You forgot to divide the 12288 by 1000 (12288 meters / 1000) 1000 meters/km.

#4 Ah... right ... i ment 12,288m x 12,288m not km.