Tiled Seamless repeating terrains

[BlindSide]

Hey guys I got a great idea open up GIMP, make the texture sizes really big like 2560x2560 (or whatever multiplyer of your preferred terrain size is) and then use the Plasma2 filter, tick tilable vertical and horizontal, then play around with the sliders until you get something you like. Make sure to have it pretty detailed and grainy, to compensate for the fact that this is a huge image.

After this, you can just select lots of 256x256 and save them seperate, or load the whole thing and somehow extract the individual parts. The nice thing is that you can have an endless repeating tilable world, without that much work. (Cept copying and pasting 100 terrains might be annoying lol, ill try to think of an alternative for this...)

Anyway youll have 100 terrain tiles that are seamless, and when layed out correctly can repeat in all directions (Useful for simulating a planet or something of that sort)

Cheers.

EDIT: Read post below Midnight's for update.

[BlindSide]

Im gonna share a nice tool I just made, it takes a 2560x2560 heightmap file and splits it into 100 smaller ones, for tiling the terrain. Who knows it might be a better idea to just use Spintz's tiled terrain scene node but I go lazy har har. Here it is:

Terrain Splitter

PS: Sorry for using the bandwidth spintz I had nowhere else to put it hope you dont mind...

[Midnight]

hmm this might be useful.

[BlindSide]

WOOPS Nevermind dont use the tool its a bit broken. It works kind of but the textures are all scaled wrong so that you dont get a finished product that lines up (Thanks to irrlicht changing texture sizes on its own to powers of 2). Also for the tutorial 2048 is maybe a better number than 2560.

Cheers

[BlindSide]

Ok I fixed up the terrain splitter, now it takes a 2048x2048 image file and splits it into 64 smaller ones. Note that the first row will have to be tweaked (See the HowToUse.txt)

Here it is (Same link):
Terrain Splitter

[iZigoo]

Looks like a cool idea !

Would be great if you make a cool irrlicht demo with it and try
how it would look like ...
Tiled terrain is a feature irrlicht really lacks ...

[olivehehe_03]

Seems like a good idea. Splitting it into tiles can help to increase framerate too, for example, the tile the player is on and the 8 around it are the only ones displayed until the player moves onto a new tile.