[osg-users] Using SSE within OSG

[Mathias Fröhlich]

James,

The most obvious problem: Group::traverse ...
Is one of the visitors you use a TRAVERSE_ALL_CHILDREN visitor? If so, the 
Group::traverse profile makes sense. Make sure that you do traverse only this 
subgraphps you need to traverse. You can then minimize that calls too. Will 
help overall!!!

Ok, so the PositionAttitudeTransform is the matrix multiplication problem.
Try that specialized transform patch I have sent to you.
That will help a bit here. But you might do even better:

You are talking about a game. So I expect that you have transform nodes to 
animate parts of the scenegraph.
I agree that you will need the full PositionAttitudeTransform in some cases. 

But I can well imagine to have special transforms in such a game where you can 
make use of specialized implementations.
Specialized with respect to:

* The kind of the transform.
Often you just have to rotate around the origin. Nothing more. Or you might 
have some linear transform to make something move but no rotation and no 
scaling.
For this case implement you own say LinearTransform or RotationTransform nodes 
derived from osg::Transform and reimplement the the computeLocalToWorldMatrix 
and computeWorldToLocalMatrix and computeBound methods with something more 
optimized. May be use that specialized preMultTranslate or equivalent methods 
from the patch I sent. You can avoid many matrix multiplications for that.

* Recomputation of the bounding sphere.
Sometimes with such special transforms, you do not need to dirty the bounding 
sphere.
Take a rotation. Say you have a leg that can rotate around the knee. Just 
compute the bounding sphere for all possible rotation values of that 
rotation. With that you will have slightly worse bounding spheres, but You do 
not need to walk large scenegraphs to invalidate the bound and you do not 
need to recompute the bound for large parts of the scene again and again.
If you have a human body for example with many transform nodes for arms legs 
and fingers and so on. Your human body bounding sphere will not be much 
larger with that kind of bounding box compared to the exact case. The 
interresting cull case is to cull away the *whole* human body which will 
happen about the same as with the exact bounding spheres.
Translations along an axis for example are a bit more difficult in this case 
since they would blow up the sphere to infinity if you want to catch any 
translation value. But if you have a translation axis, a maximum scalar value 
a minimum scalar value and a current scalar translation value, you can do 
about the same.

Hope this helps.

Greetings

Mathais

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