Re: [Nel] Nevrax and Snowballs Questions

[Vincent Caron]

Mike Stoddart wrote:
> I'm having problems compiling Nel from sources under Win2k. When I load 
> the Workspace into Dev Studio it doesn't contain any projects. If I 
> insert projects into the workspace manually, it tells me that the 
> project files are invalid and won't load them. Has anyone else seen this?

Hello,

  Could you tell if you're talking about VC6 (.dsp) or VC7/.Net 
(.vcproj) project files ? Also if you're using WinCVS to fetch the 
sources, make sure you have the option 'Checkout files with CR/LF' 
turned ON (this is the default), otherwise you'll have Unix format text 
files and most Windows applications can't deal with them.

> Also, I ran the snowballs example, but I only got about 20fps on a 
> P3-700, 256Mb, GeForce 2 GTS. Is this normal (i.e. will the 3d engine be 
> optimised in the future?)?

Seems somewhat expected, I have 60fps on a GeForce4 Ti4400 + Athlon 
1800+. Snowballs is not particularly tuned, maybe the landscape 
tesseling treshold is a bit too much as a default (or could be 
dynamically adjusted with the viewport's size, I don't know). Profiling 
it would be interesting though, my next concern is data loading (way too 
long), I let you know about my adventures in NeL's code :)