1) Terrain
- Terrain loading: Although we have the ability to render large terrain, we don't have the ability to page it in and out of memory. This kinda makes it pointless since it requires a large amount of memory to load the terrain, regardless if the heightmap is split into tiles or not. A moderate sized world crashes during buildterrain() and smaller worlds take a long time to build, even with the built in cache files feature.
- Composite Map: Distant terrain textures do not update with a change in lighting. In order to update them, the camera must be moved within range of the tile for it to update. My game has dynamic day-night cycles, which doesn't look right since the distant terrain doesn't change. It would be nice if there was a procedure to force an update of the composite map.
- Heightmap: Instead of specifying a filename for the heightmap, it would be nice if we could load a heightmap from a texture and/or buffer.
- Depth Sorting: There seems to be a depth sorting issue with billboards, unless I'm missing something.. I tried using billboards for rendering a large number of plants and many of the distant ones render after the ones closer to the camera.
- Fog: Skyboxes are affected by fog, so they don't look right when fog is used. It causes the corners to be obvious.
- Control: It would be nice if we had more control over them in general. Like being able to set the material on the fly
- Water doesn't support using 0 for camera far range. It causes the water to become glitchy.
- It would be very nice if we had more control. Like dynamic wave height, response to ambient light, and collision detection with the surface.
My video card: Nvidia GTX 460
Thanks for all your hard work Fred and Comtois!