Posted by Seth Willits on January 22, 2004 at 09:33:17:
On Jan 21, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Seth Willits wrote:> So what kind of recommendation is there for a terrain format and such?
> (Currently building my own engine.) Also, what do you guys use for
> 3DMF export? I know there's Meshwork, and there is Cheetah3d. I wonder
> if Strata does 3DMF still...(Strata does and I'm getting it)
Ok so for a terrain editor, I had an idea. (I think this might be the
way OreoTerrain works but I'm not sure cause I've never really used
it.) Basically, if you imagine a large plane made up of little boxes,
an individual box or a group of boxes could be pushed or pulled either
up or down which would cause the surrounding boxes to slope upwards.
Each one of these boxes would then be given a texture based on a 2d
tile map. The whole thing would then be exported to 3dmf for easy
loading.Sounds like it could work to me. Now I just have to figure out how to
do, well, all of that!
Seth Willits
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