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How to blend biomes with procedural terrain

I'm working on a terrain generator. Through multiple noise functions, I'm able to create many kinds of terrain I like, but I'm having a bit of difficulty joining them together in a seamless fashion. ...
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Moving camera along generated terrain?

I'm generating my terrain on the GPU, using diamond square subdivision (no height map involved). How can I anchor the camera's position to always be on top of the generated terrain? Thanks
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Tile-Based Platformer Seed Terrain Genration [closed]

I'm planning to make my game generate infinity using a seed, but how would that work? I want the terrain to generate while the player walks. When the player starts, it generates a random seed and ...
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Smooth Voxel Terrain

As a personal project, I'm trying to make a terrain generator that will create terrain looking something like the Castle Story smooth terrain. If you haven't seen it before, here: So as you can ...
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Algorithms for rainfall + river creation in procedurally generated terrain

I've recently become fascinated by the things that can be done with procedurally terrain and have started experimenting with world building a bit. I'd like to be able to make worlds something like ...
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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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Diamond-square terrain generation problem

I've implemented a diamond-square algorithm according to this article: http://www.lighthouse3d.com/opengl/terrain/index.php?mpd2 The problem is that I get these steep cliffs all over the map. It ...
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Simplex Noise flat land and hills

I'm using the simplex noise to create Minecraft like terrain. I can only achieve hills like this. Does anyone know how to use simplex to make more dynamic landscapes?
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Parallelizing creation of geometry chunks in minecraft-like game

In my game I separate creation of chunks into two stages. The first is where I generate the heightmap using simplex noise and the 2nd is when I create the actual vertex buffers. I do it like this so ...
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How to remove floating terrain when generated with 3D Perlin Noise?

I'm currently using 3D Perlin Noise to generate random terrain in combination with Marching Cubes. My issue seems to lie in scaling the noise function to get reasonable heights in my terrain. If ...
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C# XNA: Effecient mesh building algorithm for voxel based terrain (“top” outside layer only, non-destructible)

To put this bluntly, for non-destructible/non-constructible voxel style terrain, are generated meshes handled much better than instancing? Is there another method to achieve millions of visible quad ...
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Realistic planetary terrain generation with weights

I need terrain generation for a planet. The planet will be divided up into several hundred hexes, and I need it to be realistic and based on weights. I have dabbled in terrain generation before, but ...
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Correct way to “randomly” generate flowing terrain

I'm creating a simple top down RTS game. I plan on it "randomly" generating maps on the fly when I need to. I plan on it all working in 'passes': Fill the terrain in with all grass Go back and add ...
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Generating random Pools or lakes

I have implemented functions that can draw any polygonal shape, however I have been unable to generate a smooth shape that mimics the rounded edges of a lake. I tried generating two circles and ...
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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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Terrain Generation for Tile-Based 2D Platformer

I'm currently working on a tile-based 2D platformer similar to Terraria in some ways, although I'm having difficulty with the terrain generation. I have some basics done, although they do not come out ...
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What is a good technique for 2D tile-based terrain generation meeting these requirements?

As a summer project I decided it would be fun to make a Flash game. Right now I'm going for something like the look of Terraria. It's been a lot of fun, but today I've hit a snag. I need a way to ...
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Procedurally generated terrain map. Blend Transitions between terrain types

The question isn't the greatest wording ever sorry. I have been learning about and prototyping some texture and terrain generation stuff and have run into something perhaps you can help me with. How ...
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Generating island terrains with Simplex Noise (C#/XNA)

I've got one little question: Is there any code or sample which shows how the simplex noise works? I cannot find anything about it... How should I implement it, without the knowledge how the algorithm ...
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How is a 3d perlin noise function used to generate terrain?

I can wrap my head around using a 2d perlin noise function to generate the height value but I don't understand why a 3d perlin noise function would be used. In Notch's blog, ...
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Midpoint Displacement Algorithm

This question has come mainly out of sheer desperation, after spending several hours trying to figure out the problem. If you cast your eyes to the picture above, you should see that my midpoint ...
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What is the simplest method to generate smooth terrain for a 2d game?

What is the simplest method to generate smooth terrain for a 2d game like "Moon Buggy" or "Route 960"? I got an answer at stackoverflow.com about generate an array of random heights and blur them ...
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2d Procedural universe generation

I want to create a flat universe, where at first the whole universe is blank. That would be represented by a parallax scrolling nebula background image. What I want to do is represent the planets ...
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How do I generate terrain like that of Scorched Earth?

I'm a web developer and I am keen to start writing my own games. For familiarity, I've chosen JavaScript and canvas element for now. I want to generate some terrain like that in Scorched Earth. ...
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Huge procedurally generated 'wilderness' worlds

I'm sure you all know of games like Dwarf Fortress - massive, procedural generated wilderness and land. Something like this, taken from this very useful article. However, I was wondering how I could ...