Some experiments with zone-based terrain generation. Inspired by http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/ and http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=141
v0.2 reading: Inverse Distance Weighting http://www.gitta.info/ContiSpatVar/en/html/Interpolatio_learningObject2.xhtml
v0.3 reading: Rasterization http://www.sunshine2k.de/coding/java/Bresenham/RasterisingLinesCircles.pdf
v0.4 reading: Compute shaders in Unity https://scrawkblog.com/2014/06/24/directcompute-tutorial-for-unity-introduction/ http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/compute-shaders.148874/#post-1021130 https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/07/15/an-investigation-of-fast-real-time-gpu-based-image-blur-algorithms http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AndreyMishkinis/20130716/196339/Advanced_Terrain_Texture_Splatting.php http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/use-tri-planar-texture-mapping-for-better-terrain--gamedev-13821
This milestone is about texture generation. I prefer pregenerate textures for all chunks at start. Some solved tasks of this milestone:
- Span textures across neighbour chunks border:
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- Noise-blend texture with rotated and scaled itself to hide repeating pattern:
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- Noise-tint texture at large scale to achieve more organic look:
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- Use of a well-known triplanar texturing to prevent stretching on steep sides:
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- It was a some challenge to calculate texel world position to implement triplanar texturing. Bilinear world height approximation was no good. See a height isolines:
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And an example of result texturing (relief and biomes generation is still completely dumb, bump mapping/specular is left for future work also):
