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Started by ECKILLER Mar 30, 2000 at 2:31 PM 7 replies 850+ views
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ECKILLER
ECKILLER
Anybody have and good articles and/or tutorials on how to start making a terrain engine? I want it to be for polygons not voxels. Thanks ECKILLER
ECKILLER
ChimChim
ChimChim
I noticed there are also a couple terrain tests over on this site:
http://nate.scuzzy.net/programming.html
Julio
Julio
here is the link to the OpenGL SuperBible''s homepage:

http://www.itknowledge.com/reference/archive/1571690735/ewtoc.html

one goal of the whole book is to create a terrain veiwing program. it''s also a very good reference.

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Tobias
Tobias
The fog example from the DX 6.1 SDK (maybe it''s in DX7 also) is pretty good if you want terrain rendering in DX7.

Also I found a demo from a GDC lecture by someone at Westwood, unfortunatly I don''t have the link here, but that demos is very good with quadtrees, lod, and everything.

Greets Tobias
Joviex
Joviex
quote:
Original post by Tobias

The fog example from the DX 6.1 SDK (maybe it''s in DX7 also) is pretty good if you want terrain rendering in DX7.

Also I found a demo from a GDC lecture by someone at Westwood, unfortunatly I don''t have the link here, but that demos is very good with quadtrees, lod, and everything.

Greets Tobias


Is it possible to shoot that link over, I am very interested in everything terrain rendering, have a good list of links put together. Especially anything related to quadtrees.

Bworks.Com
Tobias
Tobias
okay,

http://www.salug.org/~mcoker/LOD_Terrain.zip

Greets Tobias

Edited by - Tobias on 4/1/00 8:03:48 AM
Yoshi
Yoshi
Try http://www.vterrain.org
Joscha
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