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Work in Progress / Terrain generation system using real USGS Data

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Visigoth
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Posted: 24th Jul 2007 12:16
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Hello All,
I've been working on this for about a month, and I finally got it far enough along to put out a little demo. It is a terrain system that uses real USGS terrain height data. Not from heightmaps, but actual floating point height values. This demo is a section of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. It uses no textures, but gets its coloring by setting the vertexdata diffuse color for each vertice, based on height. This terrain is very high resoulution, the actual scale is 1 unit = 1 meter. If you've ever seen 3DEM, think of that, but you can fly around with ease.
Here is a screenshot. You can download the demo at this thread:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=110869&b=1

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Silvester
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Posted: 24th Jul 2007 13:25
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1 million polygons?holy...


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Roxas
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Posted: 24th Jul 2007 13:36
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...§hit!

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vorconan
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Posted: 24th Jul 2007 14:47
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Nice frame rate


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Bush Baby
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Posted: 24th Jul 2007 15:54
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1.5 million polys and 57 FPS isn't that bad in my opinion If my computer could do that, I'd be damn happy!

#11 - Thou Shalt Practice What Thou Preach
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Visigoth
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Posted: 26th Jul 2007 12:15
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update:
There is a new demo available for download.
Many improvements made, and some more functionality.
Here is a new screenshot.
Visit this thread for the demo download.
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=110869&b=1

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vorconan
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Posted: 26th Jul 2007 13:02
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Looks awesome


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Visigoth
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Posted: 28th Jul 2007 12:43
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UPDATE:
I have added some more features, most notably the ability to walk on the entire terrain. I challenge you to find the 10 DBPro primitives spread out around the terrain.

Please visit this thread to try the demo, and any and all comments greatly appreciated.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=110869&b=1
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Visigoth
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Posted: 31st Jul 2007 12:34
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UPDATE:
I have released the source code, so if you want to mess with it, improve it, etc...
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