Infinite terrain
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| Hi guys! I want to make an infinite (or at least a very large terrain) where I can drive my spaceship at a very low height. I want to place structures in certain positions. Before try to reinvent the wheel can someone give me guidelines on: 1. How to create infinite terrains. 2. How to place my structures on the terrain above. (is there any good program for this?) Thanks in advance. |
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| 1. You can not, at least not without implementing a rather powerfull streamed terrain system. What you can do thought is dynamically modifying the terrain to let it look like it is infinite / very large and move the building in the opposite x-z direction than the ship and keep the ship above the center of that terrain all the time 2. Calculate the height at the position. TerrainY on a regular terrain |
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| Thanks Draemora. This is what I thought so far: I have 2 terrains. Te first one is what the player can see. The second one will be placed to the north, south, east or west of the first terrain and when the spaceship will reach the border of the first terrain. Tow terrains must be 'seamless'. |
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| http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=801 unfortunately broken link |
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| Hello. Don't forget your North-East, South-East, South-West and North-West cos if your player flies to the corner they're gonna see the end of the world. You might want to do a search on this as it's been raised plenty of times before. Goodbye. |
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| Doesn't the bi-plane code sample that comes with Blitz feature seamless repeating terrain? |
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| boomboom: This link is broken from the first time I think. I send an e-mail to this guy. You never now... SoggyP: I forgot it. :( Muzzer: I can't find any bi-plane sample. Please can you give me the path to this sample? Thanks! |
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| Well...if you have the complete install for B3d it's in the samples\3D samples folder - then look inside the MAK folder and it is called xfighter.bb Happy flying! Chocks away... IPete2. |
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| I was looking for a bi-plane.bb file... not an xfighter.bb Thanks IPete2 |
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| Cheers - glad to be of some help. IPete2. |
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| If you're using Blitz terrains, watch out because the vertices at opposite sides of a terrain are automatically adjusted so they are the same height. That means you can put copies of the same terrain next to each other with relative ease, but putting two different terrains next to each other is going to be quite fiddly. |
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| There is quite a nice looking infinite terrain engine - B.I.T.E. (Blitz Infinite Terrain Engine) by "makakoman". All source is supplied and it is freely useable. |
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| puki is it just on your harddrive? ;) share us a link please ;) |
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| Yes it is. I have it on several drives. |
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| I searched all the Internet, except your hard drive I didn't find B.I.T.E... Can you e-mail please? |
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| I built a game around the B.I.T.E. system a few years ago and it's amazingly fast and a great system to use. It really is infinite. The hard drive I have the source code on crashed , though, and I don't know whether I can recover it. If you email it to me I can either post it here or upload to my server for all to download. |
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| Nmuta: That's great but I think puki does not watch this thread any more:( |
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| [a http://web.archive.org/web/20040904123547/http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/showcase/showcase_showentry.pl?id=makakoman04012003155225&comments=no]is it this?[/a] |
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| Thanks Haddad!. I think this is Edit: Anyone who has difficulties on download let me know to e-mail |
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