[Plib-users] terrain generation...

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Does anyone know of a good place to look for documentation about the
different methods of doing terrain in a 3D world?

I'm either looking for resources that talk about terrain generation or
maybe just some suggestions on the best way to do it with plib in a
real-time game.

I know one formula for doing terrains is to use a grey scale bitmap to
determine the terrain.  Using the lightness or darkness of a pixel to
determine the height of that part of the terrain.

Of course, I have no idea how to apply such an algorithm to a real-time
game.  If I pre-generated the ground as a model based on the texture, it
would take the poly count for the scene off the scale.

Any pointers to other resources, or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

--
Brian