Irrlicht Engine

Youre on the right track with voxels. http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGem ... _ch01.html They explain how it works here.
This way it doesn't have to be rendered with cubes like minecraft is. It's smooth terrain. Of course much harder to work out as it's no longer a flat sphere.

I've been silently working on on 3d noise. I've got a formula that creates a result with caverns. I render it with individual cubes so I can visualize it. It looks just like minecraft untextured.

Also have started the main project that will be using the code. It's a huge project that I cannot ...

nice job you did on that one through your reading have you found anything regarding 3d noise?

Yes I did, and I also did with 3d noise.....but I decided to not even try to do that. The techniques to do that are completely different. You can't do it with a 2d image. You have to store it as data ...

Updated the code..
You can now input your own seed number via the consul for different results. Put the same number in you'll get the same result every time.

Great program sir quinnx, thanks for sharing ^_^
I just wonder, when I try to run the program, the output is always the same even if I delete the generated file noise.bmp, is that intentional or I am doing something wrong? ^_^

Thank you!

The thing with changing the output, you need to change the ...

For a nice bases as to make your npcs.

The code is unfinished...I stopped working on this a while ago. But I'll complete here soon.

By the way, you can create your own items, and races as well. Just as easily in the same way.

Header files:

stdafx.h:


#include "iostream"

#include "Irrlicht.h ...

Nice and slick. I realized I had to create a NoiseMaps directory first and this is info on using Linux and opengl. It took about half a second to pull up the noise map and FPS at default windowed screen resolution averaged 565. This is on an AMD quad core phenom with onboard video card nvidia 8200 ...

I looked long and hard for noise code, but I couldn't find anything that I could get to work with irrlicht easily. So I looked around at papers and other code shared freely and spent a long time coming up with code to generate my own noise code. I finally did it a while ago..and since it was so hard ...

Currently I'm working on a project and I'm having a hard time figuring out how I can create a "seamless" outdoor world.

What I have thought:
Using an empty scene node for the game world as a whole called "World", and then creating an infinite gird of "cells" which are tide with another empty scene ...