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How to determine character's foot contact point on a uniform triangle mesh terrain?

For a terrain that is modelled by a heightmap with a uniform triangle mesh, what are some techniques I could use to determine the contact point of the foot of a character standing on the terrain? ...
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Collision detection with heightmap based terrain

I am developing a 2D tank game. The terrain is generated by Midpoint Displacement Algorithm, so the terrain is represented by an array: index ---> height of terrain [0] ---> 5 [1] ---> ...
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Spherical procedural terrain shader based on slope

I've created a spherical terrain object out of 6 sphere projected (normalised) planes, each plane has been heightmapped post to being normalised. I'm looking to create a CG shader which will ...
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Dealing with edges on spherical heightmapped terrain

This is the problem I'm having: where the height has been applied to the vertex, the edge of each face has been pushed apart. I was wondering how I can best deal with this issue? I read elsewhere ...
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Is 1 pixel of a height map representative of 1 vertex on the mesh?

I'm trying to get my head around heightmap terrain generation. If I have a plane say 64 x 64 verts will I need to create a 64px by 64px greyscale heightmap in order to displace the geometry of the ...
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What is the best way to “carve” a terrain created from a heightmap?

I have a 3d landscape created from a heightmap. I'd like to "carve" some holes in that terrain. That will allow me to create bridges, caverns and tunnels inside it. That operation will be done in ...
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How does Terrain following work on height map?

I'm writing a 3D world game which consists of a terrain map (generated by brownian motion algorithm) and a simple avatar. My goal is to make the avatar move smoothly between points of different ...
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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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Heightmap-based Terrain with a Road

What's the best way to implement a detail feature, like a road, on a heightmap-based terrain? Update: It's a bit hard to see in the image, but the road descends from the top of the quarry to do its ...