[Papervision3D] Event for Know when object is outside to the scene

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Honestly man, you should probably just read every article on pv3d.org and
zupko.info.  These will address everything you just asked about, and it
won't take as long as you think  ;)

There is camera culling and frustrum clipping in PV3D, and it's all
discussed on those two blogs.

HTH,
mark

> Thanks for the link, I was looking for something like this, too.
>
> One (related) question: does PV3D uses some kind of "field of view"
> control
> of texture's quality? I mean, some game engines use algorithms that
> automatically reduce textures quality if the objects are far away from the
> camera.
>
> Another thing is that this engines do, is DO NOT EVEN TRY to render (or
> take
> in consideration) objects that are not in the camera field of view. This
> happens not only if the object is behind the camera, but also if there is
> another object blocking the view (a sphere on the other side of a wall,
> for
> example, wouldn't be considered by the render engine).
>
> You get the idea behind this, right? With a lot of objects, the fps can be
> drastically affected with this.
>
> Sorry if this is commented on PV3D's documentation, but I didn't found it.
> If it is, a link would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:26 AM, ths otra <ths_otra at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>> Hello Papervision List !
>>
>> I'm new in papervision and i need to use the class Text3D and
>> LetterMaterial.
>>
>> For optimizing better, i would like to know if it exists an Event could
>> say
>> to me when an Text3D object was outside  scene ... like the Event:
>> Event.ACTIVATE for example ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance and sorry for my english... ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
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