I'm very proud I was part of N9 team for last three years. The device is out. It is beautiful piece of hardware with amazing screen.
I'll start using it as development device for this thing I'm learning here. Here is the demo from the last post, with 2 ngPlant trees, running on N9.
Next thing I'm planning to do is to add collision for all of the branches in ngPlant tree to PlayBlends' btDiscreteDynamicsWorld - let's say simulating a ball hitting a branch, then bouncing from one to another until it fells down to ground ... or micro airplane flying through treetop ... anyway, just would like to see how it performs and what are the constraints. Rendering ngPlant tree seems quite OK - uploading vertex and index data to GPU buffers for rendering:
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER,...);
glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, ... GL_STATIC_DRAW);
Note that ngPlant doesn't yet support exporting mash data as triangle strips. The documentation states it is planned for next versions.
For tree branches collision detection, I'll start by reading Real Time Collision Detection and check btBvhTriangleMeshShape.
I'll start using it as development device for this thing I'm learning here. Here is the demo from the last post, with 2 ngPlant trees, running on N9.
Next thing I'm planning to do is to add collision for all of the branches in ngPlant tree to PlayBlends' btDiscreteDynamicsWorld - let's say simulating a ball hitting a branch, then bouncing from one to another until it fells down to ground ... or micro airplane flying through treetop ... anyway, just would like to see how it performs and what are the constraints. Rendering ngPlant tree seems quite OK - uploading vertex and index data to GPU buffers for rendering:
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER,...);
glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, ... GL_STATIC_DRAW);
....
Piper::instance()->glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES....
For tree branches collision detection, I'll start by reading Real Time Collision Detection and check btBvhTriangleMeshShape.
