terrain rendering glitches

Original Post

Oct 9, 2002 at 1:07 PM

hello, I'm rendering some terrain using triangle strips. Now i think the best way to describe the problem is to show you: from far away it looks broken up close it looks fine This happens regardless of whether i texture the terrain or not. any help appreciatted. cheers, rich [edited by - sideh on October 9, 2002 2:09:25 PM] [edited by - sideh on October 9, 2002 2:09:45 PM]

yzzid

Oct 9, 2002 at 1:29 PM

This looks like a depth buffer problem. What I think is happening is your depth buffer isn''t large enough and what you are seeing is a result of it.

If you are using a 16 bit depth buffer try bumping it up to 32 bits.

-dizzy

Brother Bob

Oct 9, 2002 at 1:36 PM

And/or push the near clip plane out as far as you can.

sideh

Oct 9, 2002 at 3:18 PM

you rock

nice one guys, it worked.

setting the depth buffer to 32 made no difference but setting the near clip plane to 4 (it was at 0.1) sorted it.

[edited by - sideh on October 9, 2002 4:46:01 PM]

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