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<\/p>\nI have integrated the quadtree with the spherical terrain rendering system.<\/p>\n
Currently, I am not using any kind of fractal midpoint displacement function. I am generating a low-resolution heightfield of a given size, and then I am loading this into a quadtree. This is being done in real time at the moment, but should be done at load time, since it only needs to be done once.<\/p>\n
I am then getting the distance from the player to the center of each node in the quad tree, and rendering only those nodes within the view distance.<\/p>\n
This is an important step, and I am now in a position to subdivide the nodes closest to the player further, and use the heightfields node data and some random noise to generate the child nodes at a higher resolution.<\/p>\n
I am not sure how to do this, conceptually this is fairly simple, but technically it is very complex.<\/p>\n
The images below show the nodes being rendered based on the players position. The closer the player gets, the more nodes are rendered.<\/p>\n
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