rendering question for 3d engine

The process used to render a world along with the chosen format of your data are the two inseperable elements of a 3d engine. If you are just starting out you should look at the basics, documented in various places - apply local rotations to objects, move them into world-space and then apply the inverse camera matrix to position them relative to the viewpoint. You then apply a projection matrix to incorporate perspective and end up with triangles in screen coordinates. There is plenty of useful detail available in books on basic rendering. When you are talking about creating an engine incorporating new technology you must find appropriate data formats and a more sophisticated rendering pipeline. For example, a quake-style engine might use BSP trees, a rally game might use a b-spline terrain engine, etc. At this point you will need graphics, an exporter for a 3d program, some kind of converter and a resource manager. Add to this your renderer and there''s an engine...

a good book to get to know the methods (no direct implementations, i.e. no "cut-and-paste" code) of some advanced topics, try www.realtimerendering.com
it''s a good book, worth $40, i think. others may disagree.
it starts with the absolute basics and works up to very advanced topics.

crazy166

some people think i'm crazy, some people know it

You must first kill the invisible geometry.
(BSP, Portal, octree...)
After that, you can make some Hidden Object Removal.
And then render the lasting object using the Z buffer to have a good image.
You''ll have to render shadow somewhere too.

You can/should use display lists to speed up the process.
Always faster, particulary on the PowerVR chipset.

Hopes it helps.

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Thanks for the help, I started the engine in dos and now I am working in windows. windows is bad enough let alone figuring out the engine''s problems. Thanks again.