Away3D Forum ObjectContainer3D Mesh, Geometry & Efficience

One optimization would be to clone the mesh, instead of creating a new one in the loop every time. I believe this will cause the geometry to batch, increasing render performance. (could be wrong though)

colour_materials[4] = generate materials(...)
plane = new PlaneGeometry(...)

   originalMesh = new mesh( plane, colour )

for (x,z) = (0,0)-(64,64)
   colour = lookup_colour_material(x,y)
   mesh = originalMesh.clone() as Mesh;
   mesh.x = x
   mesh.z = z
   mesh.y = lookup_height(x,y)
   add child ( mesh ) 

You could also place all the tiles in a bitmap, and put that on a big plane. This would make it hard to edit tiles though, because you would have to modify and reupload the bitmap every time you change a tile. And there also is a size restriction for bitmap objects.

The best way would be to have a big plane with a tilesheet (all the tiles in a single image). And modify the UV coordinates to show different sections (tiles) of the tilesheet at different points of the plane.
Unfortunately I am struggeling with UV mapping in away3D myself, and cannot provide the technique to do this.

ObjectContainer3D Mesh, Geometry & Efficience Software: Away3D 4.x

Suese, Newbie Posted: 15 January 2013 07:16 AM Total Posts: 6 I’m trying to generate and display a tile grid for my game. My first attempt consists of creating an ObjectContainer3D and adding 64x64 meshes based off the same PlaneGeometry and a series of 4 different ColorMaterials psuedo-code: `colour_materials[4] = generate materials(...) plane = new PlaneGeometry(...) for (x,z) = (0,0)-(64,64) colour = lookup_colour_material(x,y) mesh = new mesh( plane, colour ) mesh.x = x mesh.z = z mesh.y = lookup_height(x,y) add child ( mesh )` However this method goes excruciatingly slow at both start-up and render-time. What would be a better method for doing this with Away3D?
Dentaku, Newbie Posted: 21 January 2013 06:57 PM Total Posts: 8 [ # 1 ] One optimization would be to clone the mesh, instead of creating a new one in the loop every time. I believe this will cause the geometry to batch, increasing render performance. (could be wrong though) `colour_materials[4] = generate materials(...) plane = new PlaneGeometry(...) originalMesh = new mesh( plane, colour ) for (x,z) = (0,0)-(64,64) colour = lookup_colour_material(x,y) mesh = originalMesh.clone() as Mesh; mesh.x = x mesh.z = z mesh.y = lookup_height(x,y) add child ( mesh )` You could also place all the tiles in a bitmap, and put that on a big plane. This would make it hard to edit tiles though, because you would have to modify and reupload the bitmap every time you change a tile. And there also is a size restriction for bitmap objects. The best way would be to have a big plane with a tilesheet (all the tiles in a single image). And modify the UV coordinates to show different sections (tiles) of the tilesheet at different points of the plane. Unfortunately I am struggeling with UV mapping in away3D myself, and cannot provide the technique to do this.

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