Not portal engine using CS

[Kais]

Tell me please.
I develop game engine using large, open-air areas. Can I use CS or it is better to search somewhere else.

Thanks

[Keen]

Well the reason for the use of portals instead of open air maps is to increase efficiency. You'd find even in the best of commercial games that maps are not always in whole but split into chunks.

But if you mean terrain, there are terrain tests in CS that shows a large portal-less area (though I cannot recall how to use them right now). I think the celtest might be portal-less too.

[dominic]

If you want to use only outside scenes, you may consider using an other form of scene manager, like OCTree.  You could use Ogre3D for this.  http://www.ogre3d.org/
If you want to use both outside and inside scences, you may take a look at Irrlicht.  It support for both in the same map, but it is still in version 0.11.0.  http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/

Just to make this clear.. Nothing in CS prevents you from not using portals and it will be efficient for outdoors too (and to mix).
For examples of this, look at PlaneShift for example.

-M