Re: [Algorithms] World Editors (OT)

[Jim O. <j.o...@in...>]

One technique for creating the outdoor terrains you mention that might
interest you is using a heightfield generated terrain and a texture
synthesizer in conjunction with an infrastructure map. The synthesizer would
generate grass/dirt/rock/whatever areas from the information in the
heightfield. The infrastructure would 'override' the synthesizer textures
and blend things like roads, farming fields, and other human (or natural)
created infrastructures into the world.

If you work of a 256 grayscale imags for the heightfield and a 256 color
image for the infrastructure map, these could be fairly easy created in
simple 2D editors like PaintShopPro.


Jim Offerman
Innovade


The Atlantis Project
http://www.theatlantisproject.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Eckles" <st...@in...>
To: <gda...@li...>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 6:34 PM
Subject: [Algorithms] World Editors (OT)


> Hi,
> can anybody suggest a good , freeware (i.e not 3d studio!) , 3D world
editor
> that I can use for creating levels for my 1st person 3D engine. Currently
I
> use Rhino 3D (old demo copy), save as raw triangles then load these in to
my
> own programs to apply the textures, lights and calculate lightmaps. This
> works OK but is a right pain!! I would like to know what other people use?
> So far I looked into using worldcraft but It seems like a fair bit of
work/I
> don't understand how to read the Quake map files - maybe someone can help
> me?
>
> Secondly, what's the general method for creating outdoor terrain like
worlds
> for, say, a driving game. Most information on 3D terrains either generate
> the terrain randomly 'on the fly' or use some sort of 2D height map. But I
> want to create a world that has both terrain and a definite, pre-planned
> "structure" with roads, houses, trees etc.- I'm thinking of for example
> Rally Championship.
>
> Any help much appreciated
>
> Steve.
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