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  Re: city buildings as height_fields-- WIP 1  
From: Stephen
Date: 27 Feb 2018 11:40:23
Message: <5a9589f7$1@news.povray.org>
On 27/02/2018 16:08, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> These look really nice, good strategy. However, does this not get memory-heavy
> when you have a large number of buildings?
> 
> Your posts on this topic have inspired me to go back to a city builder I started
> on a couple of years ago - I started with SDL macros but it got too slow and
> difficult to maintain, so I'm spending most of my time in C++ at the moment,
> making .pov and .inc files from a command line tool. Each of my buildings is a
> self-contained mesh2.
> 
> Most of my effort so far has been in reading svg files for street maps, and
> splitting blocks up to make arbitrary polyonal buildings. Currently I'm spending
> a lot of time trying to get random variation in buildings while still retaining
> a recognisable style. I'm getting there. I shall post some results at some point
> :)
> 

Good to hear.


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Regards
     Stephen


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