What I've been up to: Huge Terrain
by David Laurie · 03/21/2007 (7:48 am) · 4 comments
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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#2
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 ^^
03/21/2007 (9:16 am)
wow looks sweet^^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 ^^
#3
A terrain engine like this seems really well suited to something like a low altitude flight sim, or something similarily fast...
03/21/2007 (9:24 am)
Damn, that looks sweet. Those view distances are impressive... seeing those mountains in the distance and having them properly fade in was awesome!A terrain engine like this seems really well suited to something like a low altitude flight sim, or something similarily fast...
#4
@Allyn: If your server blocks Google video use a proxy such as stealthproxy.net, I allways have to do that In school :P
03/21/2007 (5:13 pm)
This is sweet and same here with the backdrop mountains, nice terrain!@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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