Giant landscape

grumpymonkey · Post by **grumpymonkey** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:40 pm

How would I go about creating giant landscapes? Theres no way a giant heightmap would help, and making small heightmaps and connecting them together takes really long and its hard to make the edges fit perfectly

I'm trying to create a free roam world or something similar

Hank · Post by **Hank** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 2:11 am

How about a large sphere, well as large as the engine allows.

grumpymonkey · Post by **grumpymonkey** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 2:43 am

Not exactly terrain-like

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:42 am

make a huge model, or combination of many small models to form the large level?

joshcryer · Post by **joshcryer** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:13 am

The keywords you want to look for are "paging scene manager," Ogre has a decent one last time I recall, but I did find this for Irrlicht: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=29356

Dig around.

CarlS · Post by **CarlS** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:54 am

Take a look at the Tiled Scene Node from Arras at http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... 40&start=0

--Carl

Bear_130278 · Post by **Bear_130278** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:05 pm

grumpymonkey, anyway at some point you'll come to the huge terrain that is a set of smaller ones....
or or.... if you will not ever return to the piece of terrain... you can generate it on the fly...