Tree branches contact - Drag or damage in Battle of Britain?

[X32Wright]

It might look simple on paper but in the 3d world thats another issue. If this is implemented even with LOD (level of detail) geometry, this would lead to an increase in the geometry load since every breakway section would need to have a separate geometry (plus the LOD geometry) plus bounding boxes (for collision detection). Even with adaptive subdivision this multiplied by thousands of trees would be a nightmare. IF its possible at all it would restrict online play to maybe just 6-8 people nothing more due to the amount of data that needs to be exchanged as well as the amount of data that needs to be processed.

Even if they use flat geometry and simple geometry (triangles) ovelapped with Alpha-channelled textures this would still lead to more geometry and more texture maps to load during gameplay. This would be impossible. Using shaders (Cg or rendermonkey) might help but still it would be too much for online play.