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Paul Nicholls · Guest

Hi all, I have made some Delphi 5 classes that take a square terrain height
map made up of a square array of terrain patches (each represented by two
binary triangles), and tesselates them, ultimately producing triangles to
represent the terrain.

I now want to speed it up the rendering of the triangles by drawing as many
triangle strips as possible...

If I have each triangle's vertices & what terrain patch it was produces
from, is there an algorithm that can fairly quickly produces triangle strips
out of this information?

The strips have to be re-calculated everytime the terrain changes due to
holes being blown up in it every now and then...

Thanks in advance,
Paul Nicholls (Delphi 5/6 Professional)
"The simple things in life are often a pest..." - Chris Valentine
[email]paul-nicholls (AT) hotmail (DOT) com[/email]

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Alan Garny · Guest

"Paul Nicholls" <paul-nicholls (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Cox NewsGroups · Guest

i am making a game hoping to introduce new fetures in to the video gaming
industry im using the converted directx9 jedi headers and am wondering if i
were to publish this would i have to pay jedi or microsoft for using their
directx stuff?

Paul Nicholls · Guest

Thanks Alan, I'll take a look see :-)

"Alan Garny" <agml (AT) hellix (DOT) com> wrote

Maynard Philbrook · Guest

the directx9 is the meat of the core and that is included in the OS de MS so
i don't really think you need not worry..

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