Irrlicht Engine

Hmm, this could do what you want: clicky. Found that randomly today and remembered this thread.

Rytz, I wonder if the problem could be scaling?

I've had to scale down to 0.1 when loading meshes I've exported from 3DWS.

Hi, been a while since I looked into this topic but there are options. Nothing I've seen that you could consider production-ready but still.

At simplest some modellers can extrude eg walls based from a bitmap representing a floor plan. This is nothing new and Imagine did it on Amiga many moons ago ...

Hi all,

Wow. Last used Irrlicht quite a few version numbers ago, and what a great time to come back.

3D World Studio -> IrrEdit -> Irrlicht gives me the toolchain I always wanted.

Kudos to everyone involved for getting Irrlicht to it's current state.

awesome! but you're wasting a lot of tris with that flat heightfield.

suggest a simple textured quad instead!

I really like that; might play some with it.

Spintz, works with EMT_LIGHTMAP

Thank you so much for your help

Yes to both, I promise

FWIW I'm using terrain->setMaterialType(EMT_SOLID_2_LAYER) too.

*bump*

Hmmm - posted on the L3DT forum and got this response:


Hi Iain,

The bitmap exports are only 8-bit greyscales, so what you're seeing is
the 256 steps in altitude. The only way to fix this problem, as far as
I know, is to use a format with a greater precision, such as 16-bits
(TER, BT, HFF, PGM ...

Spintz, that's great, many thanks :D

But um, I can't make it work :oops:

I recompiled Irrlicht fine but the below leaves both textures unrepeated:


terrain->setMaterialTexture(0, irr_driver()->getTexture("media/terrain-texture.bmp"));
terrain->setMaterialTexture(1, irr_driver()->getTexture ...

zenoid - same result here

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

The wierd thing is that I'm just exporting the heightmap from the terrain editor I'm using (the wonderful L3DT). I tried exporting as a JPG instead of a BMP and the problem was lessened to some extent but was still evident.

Will try a different editor and ...

Wow - reminds me of a idea I had ages ago for an RTS set on a tiny little planet, but I gave up because movement on the surface beat me.

I had a nice perlin-based class for generating the planets, let me know if you'd like it and you can try and make a custom scene node out of it.

http://www ...

Spintz,

Here's some 1024x1024 terrain that illustrates the problem. The top and bottom shots show the same terrain at two different LODs.

http://gaia.coldcity.com/images/terrainproblem.jpg

The top looks great, and you can see from the wireframe that it's interpolating between vertices nicely ...