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What I've been up to: Huge Terrain
What I've been up to: Huge Terrain
| Name: | David Laurie | |
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| Date Posted: | Mar 21, 2007 | |
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I've been working on a bunch of personal projects including a space trading rpg and various other stuff. Some of these have produced results worth showing here, such as this terrain engine I'd been working on.
View a Google Video of it here!
It works by generating and storing tiles of terrain at the required level of detail as needed. A huge area of terrain can be described in under 1MB of data and the entire app required 22MB of RAM on Windows XP.
This project follows on from previous work I had been doing toward generating randomly selectable heightmap tiles from a seamless procedurally described terrain. Terrain is described parametrically at a much lower resolution and the engine interpolates these parameters to generate the heightmap.
View a Google Video of it here!
It works by generating and storing tiles of terrain at the required level of detail as needed. A huge area of terrain can be described in under 1MB of data and the entire app required 22MB of RAM on Windows XP.
This project follows on from previous work I had been doing toward generating randomly selectable heightmap tiles from a seamless procedurally described terrain. Terrain is described parametrically at a much lower resolution and the engine interpolates these parameters to generate the heightmap.
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Submit your own resources!| Allyn "Mr_Bloodworth" Mcelrath (Mar 21, 2007 at 15:47 GMT) |
| Florian (Mar 21, 2007 at 16:16 GMT) |
at first I tought the mountains on the horizon were from the skybox, then when u moved further in, it appeared they werent, pretty cool ^^
| Ian Morrison (Mar 21, 2007 at 16:24 GMT) |
A terrain engine like this seems really well suited to something like a low altitude flight sim, or something similarily fast...
| Kevin Erkelenz (Mar 22, 2007 at 00:13 GMT) Resource Rating: 5 |
@Allyn: If your server blocks Google video use a proxy such as stealthproxy.net, I allways have to do that In school :P
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