Simplest settings for Ogre Terrain?

[petrocket]

Does anyone have ideas on using Ogre's terrain component on the simplest settings? I'm trying to run it on iOS but get 3fps (in the simulator).

My config is such:

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    mTerrainGlobals->setMaxPixelError(16);
    
    // size for lightmapped terrain
    mTerrainGlobals->setCompositeMapDistance(1000);
    
    mTerrainGlobals->setLightMapDirection(light->getDerivedDirection());
    mTerrainGlobals->setCompositeMapAmbient(sceneMgr->getAmbientLight());
    mTerrainGlobals->setCompositeMapDiffuse(light->getDiffuseColour());
    
    // Configure default import settings for if we use imported image
    Ogre::Terrain::ImportData& defaultimp = mTerrainGroup->getDefaultImportSettings();
    defaultimp.terrainSize = 33;
    defaultimp.worldSize = 12000.0f;
    defaultimp.inputScale = 600; // terrain.png is 8 bpp
    
    defaultimp.minBatchSize = 33;
    defaultimp.maxBatchSize = 33;

I also tried disabling light mapping but it doesn't seem to do anything:

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mTerrainGlobals->getDefaultMaterialGenerator()->setLightmapEnabled(false);

I'd like to make the terrain shader run with the simplest settings if possible - no normal mapping or anything, just diffuse.

[c6burns]

In all likelihood you will want to make your own TerrainMaterialGenerator and take charge of GLES2 shader generation yourself. I went through this process trying to optimize for lower end android devices. The simplest generator would just reference a standard Ogre material, like this: http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=72455

Once you simplify the shaders, you may find you are also bottlenecking on the terrain updates, because you are handling too much terrain data. I had to scale down the amount of vertices I use to meet performance targets on some devices.

Anyway, even sticking with the default generator, the are quite a few options in the profile:

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MyTerrainMaterialGenerator::SM2Profile* matProfile = static_cast<MyTerrainMaterialGenerator::SM2Profile*>(mTerrainGlobals->getDefaultMaterialGenerator()->getActiveProfile());
matProfile->setLightmapEnabled(false);
matProfile->setCompositeMapEnabled(false);
matProfile->setLayerNormalMappingEnabled(false);
matProfile->setLayerSpecularMappingEnabled(false);
matProfile->setLayerParallaxMappingEnabled(false);
matProfile->setGlobalColourMapEnabled(false);

[Transporter]

Could one of you add a tutorial how to use the terrain component?
http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-ind ... +Tutorials

[petrocket]

Could one of you add a tutorial how to use the terrain component?
http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-ind ... +Tutorials

There are actually a couple terrain tutorials on the wiki, but they're inside a larger tutorial set:
http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-ind ... =Tutorials

In all likelihood you will want to make your own TerrainMaterialGenerator and take charge of GLES2 shader generation yourself. I went through this process trying to optimize for lower end android devices. The simplest generator would just reference a standard Ogre material, like this: http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=72455

Thank you! I'll try those settings out.