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3 Dimensional Chat / Fractal Landscapes?

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ifman1
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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 11:54
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Hey,

I'm working on making a project based on fractal landscapes in DBPro. I was wondering if anyone had attempted this yet and had any pointers.

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Mind Storm 101
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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 16:25
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fractal what? Could you explain more on this subject, casue it sounds interesting.

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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 17:12 Edited at: 17th Jul 2004 17:12
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Do you mean destructable landscapes (like in Red Faction). That would be cool!

I'm not sure how you would go about it without it looking bad, or using too many polies.

That's just a first impression.


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adr
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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 19:34
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No, fractal landscapes are where the heightmap of the terrain are determined using fractals. Gives you a good mountainous range

I think VanB's stoked used fractals to generate his downhill racer, stoked. If I'm not mistaken he released the source too... although I can't seem to find a working version of his homepage

Search for stoked in the wip/prog announcements.

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ifman1
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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 02:38
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Cool, I'll go check that out when I get home from work! I know he released the full source, although he said it wasn't pretty. I think I have the concepts of fractal terains down, but implementing them, especially in a game, seems daunting. Anything that I can use as a jump start would really be appreciated. Thanks adr!

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Download Fractint, generate plasma fractal, save copy of fractal and rotate 270, and use new advance terrain gen. Use first bitmap for height map and rotate on for texture map.

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Van B
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2004 01:00
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The fractally bit in Stoked is quite straightforward, makes a basic hill from randomised hotspots, then draw tracks on the terrain. I did make a standalone bit of code just to make the terrain data up - will post when I get home - IIRC it even draws a nice picture of it!.

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I posted the code for some fractallesque terrain in the code snippets, looks like....




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ifman1
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Heh, just saw the snippets post... Thanks again Van...

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