Behold a road of dominance
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 No terrain application was used - in fact, no additional software was used. This scene is purely coded terrain. Who needs terrain applications when it can be coded? All texures were designed by "sswifty". Feel free to get off your knees as you leave the thread. |
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| Well, yeah... That's... a road... |
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| awesome, now, before I can be fully impressed I will need source code for...verification that a terrain app wasn't used. Definately not for stealing.... look, I'll say this nice and simple : put it on the code archives or we'll kill you. |
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| The terrain is an array. Each square chunk is a separate mesh. The idea was stolen from someone who went on to write their own terrain system for their project. Personally, I think it looks pretty damn sexy. I also believe it could easily be mistaken for a commercial game scene. |
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| Straight roads are easy... Put a couple of bends in it ;) |
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| I can do crossroads. |
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| okay, hand over sswift's textures! ...so i can give them back... maybe? |
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| Bends are the tricky bit! Well roads that don't follow the grid. I came up with a system (although never completed it 100%) where you could draw on roads at any angle, which allowed you to create curves (made out of several straight bits). The main map was a height map with a grid system for the main terrain. It was pretty straight forward working out which grid boxes shouldn't be there for the road mesh to be inset in. The first tricky bit was creating the additional triangles to join the grid up with the road mesh, that in the grand scheme of things was pretty easy. The bit that was hard though which I never got right was working out the uv coords on these extra triangles so that the surrounding grid textures flowed into the road correctly. And road intersections never worked properly either, again, confused uv maps were the culprit again. Would have been cool to have got that working though! |
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| I will solve it with separate, curved, bend textures. I just slap one on a section of mesh. My system is not limited to a set number of textures. I can use hundreds of base textures that can then be further combined to simulate. Most terrain apps limit the number of base textures you can use to 6. Get back on your knees. |
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| So not entirely unlike the one I used for my helicopter game then! |
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| I forgot about that. Here it is: http://www.blitzbasic.com/logs/userlog.php?user=547&log=1319 Email me your code. I'll take a look. |
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| Puki: This scene is purely coded terrain. Who needs terrain applications when it can be coded? Finally 'you have seen the light'! Now, include procedural texture generation capabilities and I'll be impressed. ;) |
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| Why do you need a road in a chess game? |
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| Why do you need a road in a chess game? lol |
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| SOURCE!!!!!!!! |
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| It might even be one of the nicest screenshots (of its type) ever done in Blitz. I paid "sswifty" for his textures. It shows how quality, realistic-looking, media can make a huge difference. |
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| SOURCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| It might even be one of the nicest screenshots (of its type) ever done in Blitz. *cough*ego*cough* and yes it is a nice screenshot, are you gonna realease the code as part of a program/map editor or something or are you just gonna tease us with this image and then keep it to yourself ;-P |
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| yeah, source or we'll kill you! :D |
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here, I made a picture for you: |
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| This looks interesting |
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| wow, getting a little desperate chwaga? |
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HAHA Chwaga you're doing it wrong :D :D :D |
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| No, we'll eat him either way, but we'll ask our hydrochloric acid to be quick and nice if he gives us source :D |
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| And if he doesn't give us the source, we not only tell the acid to be deadly and slow, we'll grab the source from his computer :D, then burn down his most prized posessions then his house then all of his posessions then him :D Or we could just ask him politely :D |
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| how about we threaten to eat his dog? |
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| I might auction it on eBay. |
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| if you do, I'll eat both you and the guy who bought it. then I'll eat your money. Then I'll go to the hospital |
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| how about we threaten to eat his dog? If he has a dog, I bet it's a sausage dog. |
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| even better |
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| Oooooo.... A thoguht just came to mind... If we eat him, we will go to therapy thingies... Not fun... (not that I would know :D) Whatever lets eat him :D |
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| This kind of slipped into fiction and off of the subject didn't it? |
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| FICTION??? Sorry. |
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| mmmmm.....people.... |
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| especially puki... isn't pukii a pig? YUM |
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| definately, we'll put him in a flash-frier with season-all sprinkled on him...if he doesn't give source... |
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