Terrain with collision using heightmap!!!!

zenteo · 03:35 AM

Finally I got this thing to work : D

I've used the whole day on trying to make a terrian generator for Alice, still there are some "invisible" parts left, but here is the result so far.

I'll maybe give you the terrainbuilder when it's finished ^^

Hope you like it

Btw, use your mouse to rotate the camera, just click n drag.

Edit:
Added a new smoother version. Removed the walking prop for speedup.
Added a new map which is a little more detailed and better texured. Still the texture resolution is too low and the map get's kind of blury.

Realistic Terrain with water [Scroll down to bottom and click Download]:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gwdvas

~Zenteo

shaydon · 03-20-2010, 10:29 PM

awsome keep it up can't wait for terrian builder!

x2495iiii · 03-21-2010, 12:14 AM

Fascinating! Now THIS could be seriously useful, thanks zenteo!

03-21-2010, 12:36 AM

I know your trick.

You record the height of each point on the terrain into a matrix.

Cool, how can you mange to build the "heightmap"?

shaydon · 03-21-2010, 01:07 AM

how did you create the terrain?

01:51 AM

I was actually trying to create a random terrain generator using the diamond-square algorithm, but was never able to do it because I couldn't create nodes

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Did you put in all 5041 numbers in the "heightmap" list, or did you have a program do it for you?

It looks really nice btw. I really like the idea of how you made a 2D array into a single list.

zenteo · 08:50 AM

Thanks

Actually I created a little program in vb.net.
It translates the heightmap data from an image into an alice object.
It will automatically add the heigthvalues to the list.

At the moment, there are some problems calculating the normals for the terrain mesh, ect...

I'll release it when it's done.

~Zenteo

03-21-2010, 04:44 PM

Wow! I like this a lot. That was a cool world.

dubastot · 03-21-2010, 05:04 PM

This is incredible except I'm not sure if this could easily be incorporated into a game. Maybe I can make it randomly generate terrain at the start of the game somehow.

zenteo · 03-22-2010, 02:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dubastot

This is incredible except I'm not sure if this could easily be incorporated into a game. Maybe I can make it randomly generate terrain at the start of the game somehow.

Creating random terrain in the start of the game would be nearly impossible, at least if you couln'd do it in alice scripting.

I'm sure that it'll get easly integrated into a game, since I made this for the rpg I'm currently developing on.