Re: Combine meshes for Terrain modeling

From: Filip Strugar (fili_at_sezampro_dot_yu)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:34:38 +0200

I suppose you wouldn't want to combine them all into one big mesh, but to
render them separately (and maybe do the frustum cull)?

If they have good world coords, they should match up fine.

"Kevin Spencer" <kspencer@takempis.com> wrote in message
news:%23nSCCPKTEHA.808@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I am using USGS Digital Elevation Model files to create .X files that each
> contain about a 3 X 6-mile patch of the earth. I am having trouble
figuring
> out how to combine these separate mesh files to generate a single mesh
that
> serves as the current terrain view. How do I match up the edges of the
> meshes and combine them?
>
> TIA,
> Kevin Spencer
> .Net Developer
> Microsoft MVP
> Big things are made up
> of lots of little things.
>
>

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