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maszyna/simulation/terrainbake.cppm
maj00r b877bc0772 Cook the ground into a quadtree of mesh tiles, and keep the mesh the scenery drew
The ground in a scenery is already an irregular mesh, so the cook keeps it: it cuts the
triangles along the tile grid, welds what coincides, and builds each coarser level by
collapsing edges. Nothing is resampled, nothing is interpolated, and a hole the scenery left
stays a hole. What was here before threw the triangles away, kept their vertices and built a
fresh Delaunay triangulation over them, which filled every hole, merged the two heights of
every retaining wall into one, and - because it never erased the super-triangle - emitted
indices three too large together with triangles reaching out to the artificial corners.

Tiles form a quadtree, as Cesium Quantized Mesh intends. A distant tile is a large one, so the
horizon costs tens of tiles rather than the thousands a fixed grid needed, and the level to
draw follows from the tile's own geometric error against what the screen can resolve - which is
what the format carries that field for. Every vertex on a tile's border survives into all of
its coarser levels, and so does every edge between two of them, so two neighbours drawn at
different levels share their border exactly: there is nothing to stitch and nothing to morph.

The file layout is the format's, with two deliberate departures, both written down in
quantizedmeshformat.h: the geodetic header fields carry scenery metres, there being no
geographic reference to convert from, and the material a vertex belongs to rides in an
extension of ours. Texture coordinates are not stored at all - ground tiles in world space, so
the coordinate follows from the position and from how many metres one repeat of the material
covers, measured off the scenery once and kept in the terrain's table.

Tiles live in one archive beside the scenery, an entry each, compressed on its own. Baltyk
cooks to 546 kB against 2.2 MB of heightfields, quark to 361 kB against 9.6 MB, tomaszewo to
375 kB against 9.9 MB.

Drawing is one call a frame: every resident tile lives in the same vertex and index buffer,
with its vertices measured from the middle of the terrain so that the whole map fits in floats,
and a frame is one glMultiDrawElementsBaseVertex over the tiles the walk chose and the frustum
kept. On baltyk that settles at 291 tiles resident, 16 MB of mesh, 85 tiles and 6k triangles
drawn.

What counts as ground is what the scenery says, not what its triangles look like. A node under
origin, rotate or scale is an object standing on the ground; a material with an alpha channel is
a tree, a bush, a fence or a catenary mast. Everything else is laid whichever way it faces, so
the side of an embankment or a cutting goes in with the rest instead of leaving a hole along
every bank. Whatever is left out is recorded per node, and the scenery goes on drawing it.

A cook is a cache: it is used again only when the archive, the note of which nodes went into it
and the manifest of what the scenery was made from all agree. A manifest listing a file the
scenery names but does not have used to fail that test for ever, since an absent file never
matches - quark has such an include, and nothing beside it could ever be reused.

tools/terraincook cooks the same way outside the engine, and meshtest beside it checks what the
cook promises: a tile reads back as written, neighbouring tiles agree on their border to the
millimetre, a hole is not filled in, a wall is laid exactly once, and a material's tiling comes
out of the source. seamcheck.py goes: it tested the morphing constants of a heightfield nothing
reads any more.
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/*
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terms of the Mozilla Public License, v.
2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not
distributed with this file, You can
obtain one at
http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
*/
module;
#include <cstddef>
#include <cstdint>
#include <string>
#include <string_view>
#include <vector>
export module eu07.simulation.terrainbake;
import eu07.glm;
import eu07.model.vertex;
export {
// Cooking a scenery's terrain into mesh tiles on its first run, and leaving out the triangles
// the tiles stand for on every run after that.
//
// The first load lays every triangle of ground into the cook and writes the tiles beside the
// scenery, along with a note of which nodes went into them and of what the scenery looked like
// at the time. Later loads read that note: a node the tiles stand for is not built at all, one
// the tiles stand for in part is built without those triangles, and if anything the scenery is
// made of has changed since, the lot is cooked again.
namespace simulation::terrainbake {
enum class verdict {
draw, // the tiles do not stand for this node: build it as written
skip, // the tiles stand for all of it
filter // the tiles stand for part of it; build the rest
};
struct node_plan {
verdict what { verdict::draw };
// per triangle of the node, whether the scenery still draws it. only for verdict::filter
std::vector<bool> drawn;
};
struct node_decision {
bool skip { false };
bool bake { false };
std::uint64_t key { 0 };
node_plan plan;
};
// picks up tiles cooked earlier, or arms the cook when there are none
void begin( std::string const &Sceneryfile );
// whether triangles are being collected for a cook
bool collecting();
// what to do with one triangle node of the scenery
node_decision examine(
std::string const &File, std::size_t const Line, std::vector<std::string> const &Parameters,
std::string_view const Type, glm::dvec3 const &Offset, glm::vec3 const &Rotation, bool const Worldspace );
// hands a node's triangles to the cook, where they are placed in the world. a material with an
// alpha channel is not ground - it is a tree, a bush, a fence or a catenary mast - and is left to
// the scenery to draw
void add(
std::uint64_t const Key, std::vector<world_vertex> const &Vertices, std::string_view const Material,
bool const Translucent );
// writes the tiles, or reports on what the tiles cooked earlier stood for. Included is every
// file the scenery read, which is what tells a later load whether it is still the same scenery
void finish( std::string const &Sceneryfile, std::vector<std::string> const &Included );
} // namespace simulation::terrainbake
}