Irrlicht Engine

Thanks for the feed back. Grome looks pretty nice. I"m using PnP Terrain Creator but I may switch to this if all goes well. The only problem is that it's kind of pricy...

It seems I've been able to get texture splatting to work on my terrain. I'd really be interested in hearing suggestions on different approaches or improvements to what i've done here. Before attempting texture splatting, I used one texture streched over the terrain: http://img508.imageshack.us/img50...

Excellent...thank you for the feed back...I appreciate the help!

Thank you for the reply! One last question. Would you recommend the use of mesh blocks for terrain or is this generally considered bad practice? I'm a seasoned developer but new to 3d games development so any suggestions/advice would be helpful. I'm just trying to get a feel for some best practices ...

Hello, I was wondering what the advantages/disadvantages would be in using mesh terrain blocks over the built in terrain system with heightmaps? I'm currently using PnP TerrainCreator and i get the best results when I use meshes with vertex alpha. However, i assume that using mesh blocks means I can...