Terrian

You need A LOT more clarification to get this one answered :D

My mistake....

I don''t really know how to explain it....

Well what is Terragen?

terragen is a Terra-Generator

you can render terrain-images with it, create skybox-textures, heightmaps, or just kewl wallpapers for your desktop !

and the best thingy of ''em all : it''s free !! (for private use)

but i still don''t understand, what THAT has to do with ''How to create land and display it...'' !?!

is that an OpenGL-question ?? then you probably mean heightmap-rendering / terrain-rendering... you should look up these topics.

else... what exactly is your question ?

BY the looks of posts, Everyone is (or has at one time) trying to make a terrain engine.

I am by no means an expert, but I presume you need several things


- A way to represent the land - This could be a heightmap, or procedurally generated

- A way of adjusting LOD, so in the distance there will be less polys drawn

- A way of rendering the Poly''s

*g*
Realy, everyone does it.

You should visit nehe.gamedev.net and look to the Tutorials.

Or look at my thread called "Heighmap".

www.gametutorials.com (The author of NeHe''s tutorial on Heightmaps) has a tutorial on creating them, and also one on texturing them. That one also has a link to the best TerraGen Tutorial.