PagingFeature Needed

[stealth977]

There should be a isPageVisible(pageID) function in the interface, it is very much needed for various features as you can guess

If there is one and i couldnt find it, sorry for bugging you, its just hard to find a function in the crowded list of paging related headers

[stealth977]

Oh also, getPageStatus(pageID) could be nice , the return values could be PAGE_LOADED, PAGE_UNLOADED, PAGE_ONHOLD etc...

[sinbad]

Hmm- there's no isPageVisible(pageID) because actually visibility isn't an issue when it comes to paging, proximity is. Whether or not you can physically see a page is not something that's useful to the paging system because it takes no time at all for a camera to turn around or even in an occluded environment peek through a gap. So we just don't use visibility in the system, which is why pages are not forced to care about it.

For your second request, I was deliberately trying not to expose state variables like this too much because it just adds locking for it to be threadsafe. Doing this was the main problem with overcomplicating the resource threading so I didn't want to repeat the same mistake. I would prefer that people interacted with the load sequence via events which require no more locking than the standard process.

[ERSmith]

Speaking of paging. Is it only a rumor that 1.7 contains terrain paging?

If it isn't a rumor, is there a good source of documentation on using it? I have been looking and will continue to look. The wiki tutorial only covers single page terrain use of course since its from an old Ogre build.

[jacmoe]

Look at the source for the terrain sample.

[ERSmith]

You all truly hate me. I once had a professor who used that as a threat of punishment. Reading each others source.

If only Knuth taught that way.

"Here, read this source". Though his "leave it as an exercise for the reader" was about as infuriating.

One day I'll figure it out I guess.

Thanks.

[Fulmens]

You all truly hate me. I once had a professor who used that as a threat of punishment. Reading each others source.

If peer code reviewing was considered a punishement, there was either a problem with your mates or your professor

[jacmoe]

Reading Ogre source code is not a punishment.

It's a blessing!

[sinbad]

The truth is that paging is there, but I don't feel it's fast enough yet. That's why it's sort of hidden in a cupboard and not being talked about very much. The terrain sample does indeed have a test of it.

I want to get some time to work on this more soon, but I burned a ton of Ogre time on 1.7 and I need to spend a bit of time earning some money to pay the mortgage now Will come back to it soon.

[ERSmith]

Fulmens:

Please do not disparrage my professors or peers, you know nothing of them.

Sinbad:

Thank you, that actually does help. I'm still looking at the terrain sample code anyway. Not much so far on this terrain .dat file format its using yet.