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Hey everybody,

Basically I'm working on creating a landscape that is pretty big, 40,000 pixels wide by 40,000 pixels long. (give or take a few pixels.) I don't like the idea of using matrices because they tend to absorb more memory than using a .X object and they're harder to get to my exact specifications.

So what I've done is I've made a series of planes in 3dsmax, each 10,000 x 10,000 pixels and have the maximum number of allowable faces. I've lined them up in 3dsmax and then exported them all as .X files individually as "zones." When I load them into DBPro, they load in their proper coordinates, but some are slightly rotated along one axis or another, and all of them reveal parting lines between each "zone" that I've defined.

When the character runs across the landscape, you can clearly see the lines between the planes even though the textures are painted to be continguous. Does anyone know a better method than the one I'm using to create a world of this size? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Weedfox

40000^pixels? a heightmap? thats crazy

if theres gaps between your models then your model must be off sligtly, and you could just adjust the positions of each part separately, if you truely want a huge landscape you could either use advanced terrains and use a big heightmap, or join some big advanced terrains together or use a matrix but shift it every so many units you walk across and change the heights of the points thus giving the illusion of a large lanscape, or use a 3d model alndscape and possibly slice it up a few times.

Vue3D maybe? not too expensive, its a good 3D landscape program, very good reviews, or if that outta ya budget, then Mojo world