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The terrain rendering tag is used for questions about the creation of terrain.
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Any ideas on reducing lag in terrain generation?
Ok so here's the deal. I've written an isometric engine that generates terrain based on camera values using 2D perlin noise. I planned on doing 3D but first I need to work out the lag issues I'm ...
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Are there any preexisting maps for a Minecraft-like level I could use in my engine?
I am working on a tiny cube-based engine like Minecraft. I was wondering if there is a way for me to get large blocky terrain in a text format that I can use for rendering on my engine?
I don't want ...
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Where to start when building a 3D terrain editor?
I'm looking to build (for start) a simple tool, that could raise, lower, smooth and texture the terrain.
So, what are the things I have to go through in order to make such terrain editor?
And maybe ...
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What is a good algorithm for fractal-based procedural city layout?
Background
I run a minecraft server where I'm going to design a starter city of fairly large scale. I have a series of things, like rule signs and mob cages, I would like to put in buildings there. ...
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What are some current techniques for rendering deformable landscapes?
What are the current techniques than can be used for efficiently rendering 3D heightmap-based deformable landscapes?
For example, in the non-deformable landscape problem, ROAM used to be the way to ...
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How did they do it: Trine 2.5d terrain?
How did they make the terrain in trine? I think they took a polygon approach. It doesn't seem that they used a heightmap because it is in all three vectors, or a voxel method because it doesn't have ...
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2D Procedural Terrain Generation - Guaranteeing connectedness?
I'm working on a 2D platformer in XNA. One of things I'd like to be a main design characteristic is procedural content generation. The first step of that is to procedurally generate the terrain. So, ...
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How are voxel terrain engines made?
A few days ago I found something called voxel terrains and I think that they're pretty cool. But I don't know anything generating them. Do you model it in your modeling software or use something like ...
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Quadtree terrain splitting - I don't get it
Most of the papers i've read base their terrain in some form or another on a quadtree. See this at page 38:
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How can I generate a terrain heightmap from the perlin algorithm?
How can I generate a terrain heightmap from the perlin algorithm? I am trying to make a terrain generator (like World Machine). This is the source code I have for the perlin. The only thing that I ...
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Perlin noise example the same on CPU as GPU?
I am looking for an example site with a Perlin Noise implementation in both CPU and GPU, that generates somewhat the same results in those two places.
I see many CPU implementations of Perlin Noise, ...
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Perlin noise - copying the algorithm on the CPU?
I have successfully made a Perlin noise algorithm on the GPU. It works as expected, and generates great results. Now, as part of the physics calculations in my game, I need to replicate the exact same ...
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How can I make huge terrains in Unity?
How can I make extremely huge terrains in Unity? It seems like I can set width and length to large values. But the Heightmap resolution only goes up to 4097 and the Detail resolution only goes up to ...
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Optimizing perlin noise generation
I have a perlin noise generator as shown below.
public class ImprovedNoise
{
private const int GradientSizeTable = 256;
private readonly Random _random;
private readonly double[] ...
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Heightmap, Voxel, Polygon (geometry) terrains
In relation to Heightmap, Voxel and Polygon (geometry) terrains:
What are the main differences between all these three?
Can you form a "smooth" terrain with Voxels, I mean, can you for example get a ...
