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--- plant_rendering [2008-07-14 11:14] – davegriffiths
+++ plant_rendering [2008-07-14 11:16] – davegriffiths
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-The cubes approach was too slow (for my old graphics card in 2004) I was spawning hundreds of trees at a time - they were evolving using mutation errors of data encoded in seeds the trees dropped. I later moved to using camera facing geometry (sprites), textured with faked normals to make them shade according to the lighting to appear cylindrical. With a bit of texturing it looked like this:
+The cubes approach was too slow (for my old graphics card in 2004) I needed to be able to spawn hundreds of trees at a time - they were evolving using mutation errors of data encoded in seeds the trees dropped (and playing music as they grew). I later moved to using camera facing geometry (sprites), textured with faked normals to make them shade according to the lighting to appear cylindrical. With a bit of texturing it looked like this:
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