It isn't Crysis or Just Cause 2 yet, but my terrain rendering system is coming along nicely.
Here is a flyover video. Any stuttering in the video is from the capture and encoding process - it runs butter-smooth.
Techniques I'm currently using:
- Terrain generation with L3DT.
- Skybox rendered with Terragen and cube-maped with AMD CupeMapGen.
- Texture splatting for landscape detailing.
- Water shading based on a modified version of Kyle Hayward's water component with the addition of variable water transparency depending on water depth.
- Bloom and Lens Flare based on Microsoft's XNA samples.
- Simple terrain Level-Of-Detail system. It currently works at a whole-island level - I'll likely have to move to a more complicated approach.
Awesome!
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should consider implementing some sort of Rayleigh and Mie light scattering?
Hey, just wanted to say the island looks beautiful and I can't wait to see what game will come out of this!
ReplyDeleteThanks guys! I'm definitely planning on adding as much eye candy as I have horsepower for.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I'm not sure yet myself what game will come out of this - currently I'm just working on the underlying technology.
Truly amazing stuff man. I'm liking your camera handling skills too :]
ReplyDeleteThanks Lotus. The camera is actually being driven by my current flight model. Right now it is just a pretty simple lift/drag/thrust model, but it is almost good enough to be used in arcade flight game.
ReplyDeleteVery nice. I really like the features, you really nailed the JC2 look. Would you mind sharing the L3DT settings you used, if you still have the project lying around?
ReplyDeleteHi Derek - thanks! I don't recall the exact L3DT settings, but I don't think I did anything very complicated. If you just mess around with L3DT a bit, you should be able to get similar results pretty easily.
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