Scene Management

You need to differentiate. Scene management is how you structure object in your scene. But Octrees, quadtrees and BSPs are algorithms to structure the data in the renderer, in order to minimize the visibility culling.

For managing the scene, I would advice to use a scenegraph. Those graphs represent the logical connection between objects in the scene. If you use google, you'll find alot of topics about this :)

Hi,

I've not very much experience with racing games in particular, but i'll just give my opinion.

I think it is more commen to use an octree/quadtree instead of a bsp tree, as bsp trees are more usefull indoors. So if you want to make a racing game in which you race through citys and open country sides etc. you probably need to go for the octee.

I reasently read this article from NVidia on occlusion culling. The example they built lookt very much like a racing game, so it might be of use if you plan on using occlusion culling.

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems2/gpugems2_chapter06.html

succes,

Dietger

SiS-Shadowman:
Thanks, things look a bit more clear now.

dietepiet:
Thank you for the link.