Polygon z-fighting issues

[eventhorizon5]

Hi,

I'm having an issue with polygons z-fighting when they're placed at positions usually further than 1500 units in any direction, with the camera always at the same distance from the polygons (this is not related to view distance).  In an example test, two polygons are spaced 0.01 units apart (let's say the camera's 10 units away from them), and if they're centered at 0,0,0, they look fine.  But if you move both their mesh and the camera to an X position of 1500 for example, the polygons start overlapping, seemingly due to some sort of position rounding.  This doesn't seem to be related to the internal vertex compression (unless compression is performed each time the meshes are moved).  I'm thinking of possibly changing the unit scale to deal with this issue (right now 1 3D unit is 1 foot - should probably use something like 10 meters instead).  Has anyone else experienced this issue?

-eventhorizon

[res]

Z-fighting is a technical limitation you have to work with. CS 1.9 gives you some more flexibility as you can control the perspective matrix with it manually (and hence choose a matrix with a more limited depth range, but better 'separation' at distance) but fundamentally the problem won't go away.

[eventhorizon5]

Z-fighting is a technical limitation you have to work with. CS 1.9 gives you some more flexibility as you can control the perspective matrix with it manually (and hence choose a matrix with a more limited depth range, but better 'separation' at distance) but fundamentally the problem won't go away.

Thanks for that info - yesterday I made an internal coordinate rescaler to deal with that problem, and it worked (at least with the distant positions that are currently used - currently rescales at a 5:1 ratio, the 1 being a single GL coordinate unit).  One issue I've noticed with high ratios is that the frustum culling seems to go crazy - I tried finding a way to change/rescale the view frustum, but couldn't find anything.  I'm attaching a pic showing what things look like at a 100:1 ratio (everything near the camera is clipped).

-eventhorizon