> Your work is not in vain, you've probably learned some new things.

That's true. :)  Have you had a look at my work?

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Wow. If meshes are that much better I'll rewrite my grasspatch to use them.
Right now I think I use a union of triangles....

Josh

Mick Hazelgrove wrote:

> As you all know I speend alot of time creating landscapes.  Trying to speed
> up grass has been one of my major preoccupations.  After using an inc file
> which was a union of triangles and getting fed up with the time it took to
> parse, I changed the union to mesh. To my astonishment the file parsed in
> less than a second.  At this point I took a look at my grass file to see if
> I could speed it up - lots of work. Coincidentaly Gilles put up his new web
> site and whilst enjoying this I came across his grass file and  Gilles had
> got there first.  His file outputs a grass patch as a mesh and to give you
> some idea of of it's capabilities and to pass on the lesson I have learned I
> rendered this picture.
>
> Here's some stats:
>  Peak Memory 1323748 bytes
>  Parse Time 33 secs
>  trace time 4 min 15 secs
>
> Number of Grass blades ............................4,297,500 !!!!
>
> Wow
>
> Mick
>
>  [Image]

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