Posts Tagged "terrain"

Terrain updates

Terrain updates

After at least one year without any entry, finally I decided to post my evolution on terrain rendering. The planet has geometry and texture streaming of whole earth at 1km resolution (for now). And as a bonus, a little galaxy

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Chunked lod tests

Chunked lod tests

A lot of time without any post, bad, bad, bad. I’ve been busy writing the demo for shaderX7 article, thanks to Nico for the 3d mesh for the demo ^^. Well, I’ve been testing some terrain implementations: SOARX, Clipmapping but the winner by far is the chunked lod algorithm. http://tulrich.com/geekstuff/chunklod.html…

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My own planet (II)

My own planet (II)

New improvements has been added to my 3d planet (that suspiciously, looks-like to our earth :p). * Added cloud layer. It completes one full round each 30 minutes. * Data (frontier, coast lines, etc) near blending when the camera is near to the planet. * Stars texture map for not…

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My own planet

My own planet

Because I know that I’ll never conquer the world, I tried to build my own earth in order to conquer and tyrannize it… muahahhahaha (very, very evil laught) It uses the planetary scattering algorithm of Sam O’neill, and at now I’ll try to find some use to it… [quivers, Google…

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