A few people asked for an OgreSpeedTree video with more varied scenes, and I’ve now uploaded one to the OgreSpeedTree section of the Torus Knot site. Just scroll down below the screenshots if you want to view the video.
I have a higher resolution & better quality version (this one is H.264 at 1Kb/s) but I’ve kept this one small for now to keep my bandwidth under control. Places like Vimeo don’t allow commercial advertising, and while before I could get away with claiming it was just in-development test output shared with enthusiasts only, this is really an advertisement video so I’m hosting it myself. I have enough bandwidth to spare unless something really goes bonkers (I think) - in case it does, does anyone know of any reasonably priced business media hosts (UK only), should I need something more than just upping my bandwidth allowance? I’ve seen a few dedicated streaming media hosts around but don’t have a view on how good they are.
OgreSpeedTree 1.0 entered RC1 a week ago and I haven’t had any reports of any issues, so I’m pretty much ready to stick a fork in it & declare it done for now. I’ve been improving OgreSpeedGrass this week, such as making the grass paging re-entrant so that new cells can be filled gradually to spread the buffer update overhead over many frames, that seems to have helped in busier scenes. That just needs a couple more utility functions for loading in grass distributions from tools, then that will be done too. Then, it’ll be time to get the marketing wheels moving…
September 27th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
In your face Crysis!:)
September 27th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I may be wrong, and I’m to lazy to look through your blog history but didn’t you talk about using amazon S3 as your backup service? If I’m right, why not use that as a cheap and reliable hosting platform?
September 28th, 2008 at 12:03 am
I fall to my knees and beg “I’m not worthy!”. Awesome stuff!
September 28th, 2008 at 10:14 am
@John
because that is a backup service (password protected), and no file hosting site.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I used to think S3 space was only accessible via an API, not http, thus to link a Flash video player to it required an intermediate bit of code, but it looks like there are ways of doing it, so I’ll definitely look into this. There are apparently some extra gotchas in Flash 10 though with cross-domain rules so I’ll have to spend some time testing.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Looking amazing, it really is.
I cant help with a media host sorry, but yes, you should definitely put a higher def vid up soon as it will make a big difference.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Do you have not an unlimited traffic hoster?
In germany it cost 9? per month, not to much I think.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:25 am
I have a dedicated host - very few dedicated host providers allow unlimited bandwidth in the UK, and none of them are the ‘good’ ones. ‘Unlimited bandwidth’ is a con - bandwidth costs money so in practice they cannot possibly allow everyone to have truly unlimited bandwidth, they’d be out of business. What they actually do is throttle your rates instead of capping your total transfer, or ‘reserve the right’ to stop your bandwidth use if it becomes ‘excessive’ (read the small print). It’s a marketing thing, and don’t for a second believe that you really have the kind of flexibility ‘unlimited bandwidth’ suggests at 9 euro a month. They’re banking on the fact that few people will actually try to use this bandwidth and will just come to the provider because of this empty marketing bullet point.
http://www.findmyhosting.com/truthunlimited.htm
http://www.discountdomainsuk.com/articles/6/289/0/1
In short, it’s better to pay for bandwidth, then you get a guaranteed service.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Video isn’t there in firefox3.0.2, ok in IE though.
September 29th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Works fine for me in Firefox 3.02 and 3.03, on Windows and OS X (also on Opera, IE and Chrome). Are you sure you have Flash installed on FF?
September 29th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
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