Re: [Once development] Terrain Generation

[Thomas C. R. <th...@th...>]

On Monday October 18 2004 2:10 am, Marc Jessome wrote:
> I like the editor idea a lot.  In my opinion, it should be able to
> import heightmaps, because in my opinion - terrains are easiest to
> make from a heightmap.
>
> but thats just my 2 cents.
>

okay, that's hard to do because:

 * The whole point of the coarse mesh system is that you end up transmitting 
much less data than a heightmap.
 * In oder to convert a heightmap to a coarse mesh system, you'd have to look 
at the peaks and troughs in the terrain, and then hope that the perlin noise 
(& other stuff) wouldn't change the terrain in any significant way (and it 
probably would).


It sounds like a feature we might include at a later date perhaps.
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Thomi Richards,
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