36RSO Project progress 1

Last 2 weeks

• studied possible ways of mesh locality optimizations
• implemented own way to generate triangle strips for regular grids (up to 400% higher framerate!)
• compared with nVidia tristrip library (worse results due to the general use of this library)

Next 2 weeks

• study of shading techniques for GPU clipmaps
• revise existing shading and update to valid GPU per-pixel shading using normal maps
• proper normal map update during clipmap shift on GPU
• blend normals near boundary of clipmaps (same way as geometry blending)