The terrain rendering tag is used for questions about the creation of terrain.
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Tweaking Heightmap Generation For Hexagon Grids
Currently I'm working on a little project just for a bit of fun. It is a C++, WinAPI application using OpenGL.
I hope it will turn into a RTS Game played on a hexagon grid and when I get the basic ...
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GPU based procedual terrain borders?
I'm working on a game that preferibly should feature a combination of designed and procedually generated terrain where the designer specifies in somewhat detailed terms what type of terrain a given ...
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Dynamic Terrain Texture
I've been looking at a 2D physics game called 'Hill Climb Racing' (Android and iOS) and was wondering how they went about texturing the terrain?
I've had a think about it and I've come up with ...
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“Marching cubes” voxel terrain - triplanar texturing with depth?
I am currently working on a voxel terrain that uses the marching cubes algorithm for polygonizing the scalar field of voxels. I am using a triplanar texturing shader for texturing. say I have a grass ...
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Voxel terrain rendering with marching cubes
I was working on making procedurally generated terrain using normal cubish voxels (like minecraft) But then I read about marching cubes and decided to convert to using those. I managed to create a ...
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Two graphical entities, smooth blending between them (e.g. asphalt and grass)
Supposedly in a scenario there are, among other things, a tarmac strip and a meadow. The tarmac has an asphalt texture and its model is a triangle strip long that might bifurcate at some point into ...
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How is the terrain generated in Commandos and Commandos game clones/look-alikes?
The Commandos series of games and its similar western counterpart, Desperados, use a mix of 2D and 3D elements to achieve a very pleasing and immersive atmosphere. Apart from the concept that alone ...
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What's the newest trend / method for terrain rendering?
The last time I checked in on terrain rendering, ROAM was the new hotness. Yes, that was a long time ago. I liked ROAM a lot, though, because it was extremely simple to program, and gave pretty ...
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Help with Open GL terrain
I have a terrain class like so:
class Terrian {
public:
Terrian(int width, int height);
virtual ~Terrian();
GLuint get_vertexbuffer();
GLuint get_colorbuffer();
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Map terrain generation to texture instead of color
I have some terrain being generated using the following algorithm
double rand1 = rand.NextDouble() + 1;
double rand2 = rand.NextDouble() + 2;
double rand3 = rand.NextDouble() + 3;
float offset = ...
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How should I position and move objects in my 3D world in relation to terrain
I'm drawing a heightfield as a piece of 3D terrain using the fairly 'dumb' method of drawing triangles, like everyone does when learning this sort of thing. There's no fancy LOD, scenegraphs or other ...
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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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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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How to make a 2D Terrain with opengl?
I want to make a simple 2d terrain with just a few bumps and height changes:
I thought about just using random numbers to describe the height of a certain vertex, but I don't see how I can make ...
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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 ...
