The terrain rendering tag is used for questions about the creation of terrain.
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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 ...
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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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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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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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Heightmap, Voxel, Polygon (geometry) terrains
In relation to Heightmap, Voxel and Polygon (geometry) terrains:
What are the main differences between all these three?
Can you form a "smooth" terrain with Voxels, I mean, can you for example get a ...
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2D Procedural Terrain Generation - Guaranteeing connectedness?
I'm working on a 2D platformer in XNA. One of things I'd like to be a main design characteristic is procedural content generation. The first step of that is to procedurally generate the terrain. So, ...
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How can I generate a terrain heightmap from the perlin algorithm?
How can I generate a terrain heightmap from the perlin algorithm? I am trying to make a terrain generator (like World Machine). This is the source code I have for the perlin. The only thing that I ...
