i found a few threads about occlusion culling, a patch to modifiy the jme source to support it but nothing official. is this feature planned, and if yes, is there a release date?
HamsterofDeath said:
i found a few threads about occlusion culling, a patch to modifiy the jme source to support it but nothing official. is this feature planned, and if yes, is there a release date?
The feature is not planned. Renanse said in another post that the RenderQueue system will be extensible in jME 2.0, allowing user-created queues such as the one I posted. I don't really like this because occlusion queries require render-system specific code which somewhat goes against jME's principles.
Actually, I don't recall saying an occlusion queue would not be added, just that you can make your own in 2.0 (or that was the plan anyhow.) Also, I also share the opinion that such queries would indeed need to be abstracted out to the renderer level rather than made directly in the queue.
the question is: should i wait until someone does something which i can use, or should i implement occlusion queries myself?