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Torque & Trees & Large Scale

by Tim Holt · in Torque in Education · 04/04/2006 (12:27 pm) · 2 replies

Sort of a cross post, but I am starting up a project at Oregon State University to do large scale forest data visualization. Anyone else doing anything similar?

See this thread for a post I did about it.
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Associate Anthony Rosenbaum
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04/25/2006 (8:33 am)
You should talk with Ben Garney at Garage Games in Eugene, he is the Lead on TGE devlopment and one of his side projects was developing a Forest Pack

Torque Owner Tim Holt
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04/28/2006 (12:16 pm)
Some pics of a quick "hack" render I did. It's just the TSE demo with new terrain & a large large number of trees done as sprites/billboards using the fxFoliageReplicator. The trees are suprisingly good looking, as long as you don't get too close, fly overhead or expect them to be solid.

oregonstate.edu/~holtt/images/tillamook_torque_1.png
oregonstate.edu/~holtt/images/tillamook_torque_2.png
There are approximately 59000 foliage items in the mission file with render distances (for some groups) out to 5000 or so. FPS around 30+. I'm pretty impressed that it doesn't just fall flat on it's face with that kind of load.