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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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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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XNA 3d Terrain using rectangular elements [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Creating a 3D map for XNA ? I am developing using XNA, a simple 3d tower defense game. I wanted create a 3d terrain. Here is how I am doing it: fundamental element ...
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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 ...