{"id":2694,"date":"2016-04-16T04:34:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T03:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2016-04-16T04:34:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T03:34:34","slug":"p-152-virtual-world-concept-update-111-height-based-terrain-shader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p-152-virtual-world-concept-update-111-height-based-terrain-shader\/","title":{"rendered":"P-152: Virtual World Concept Update 111: Height-Based Terrain Shader"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have implemented a very simple height-based shader.<\/p>\n

I simply passed 8 samplers to the shader and assigned each one of them a height range. Obviously, this is not an idea solution. There are very visible seams between the ranges, and there are no detail maps applied, etc. I will need to implement much more complex blending and other improvements to this, but it is a good start.<\/p>\n

The next goal will be to work on these improvements to the terrain shader, as well as work on the seams and general quality and performance of the terrain. The first step here is to expose all of the configuration variables within the terrain code to script, so that I can change them in run time. I can then look at various different options for terrain configuration.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, most of the quality and performance issues can be worked out without major coding work.<\/p>\n

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I have implemented a very simple height-based shader. I simply passed 8 samplers to the shader and assigned each one of them a height range. Obviously, this is not an idea solution. There are very visible seams between the ranges, and there are no detail maps applied, etc. I will need to implement much more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astral-realms","category-p-0","category-software-and-games","category-spiritus-astrum","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}