A raster image which can depict a 3D environment through mapping out the height at every point. Can be thought of as a mechanically consumeable form of topographical map.
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Voxel heightmap terrain editor
I've recently been experimenting with a simple Voxel-based 3d engine (think Minecraft) which uses heightmaps to define terrain in the following format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heightmap
Does ...
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Sidescroller variable terrain heightmap for walking/collision
I've been fooling around with moving on sloped tiles in XNA and it is semi-working but not completely satisfactory. I also have been thinking that having sets of predetermined slopes might not give me ...
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Generate islands/continents with simplex noise
Managed to get something like this using a simplexnoise port i made from the original javacode to php:
Used some tips from other post:
Understanding Perlin Noise
basically, lowered the frequency ...
