{"id":3262,"date":"2016-07-24T01:29:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T00:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2016-07-24T01:29:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T00:29:41","slug":"p-152-virtual-world-concept-update-137-planet-sized-terrain-part-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p-152-virtual-world-concept-update-137-planet-sized-terrain-part-16\/","title":{"rendered":"P-152: Virtual World Concept Update 137: Planet-sized Terrain: Part 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I am starting to see an end in sight for the second milestone of this project.<\/p>\n

The objectives that I have left to accomplish are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Fully Implement and Verify the Planet scale<\/li>\n
  2. Reimplement\/fix player collision<\/li>\n
  3. Additional Levels of Detail for short view distances<\/li>\n
  4. Additional Levels of Detail and support for long view distances, until the planet is out of view<\/li>\n
  5. Collision between non-player objects and the terrain<\/li>\n
  6. Fix the 3D Gravity code (T3D applies gravity on the negative Z axis only by default)<\/li>\n
  7. Reimplement First-Person terrain rendering optimisations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I am hoping that these objectives should take no more than a few weeks to implement.<\/p>\n

    I believe I have already achieved the first objective, although some more testing may be necessary.<\/p>\n

    I am currently working on creating additional LOD’s for short view distances. My intention is basically to first subdivide the nodes from the 64-bit world space values to 32-bit values, and cull any nodes outside of the 10k range, this is currently working. I now need to further subdivide the nodes that are left to produce a smooth terrain that looks realistic and aesthetically pleasing. This may involve duplicating the existing subdivision code.<\/p>\n

    The below image is taken at a 45 degree angle between two points on the sphere, and further verifies that the terrain is at the correct scale.<\/p>\n

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    Torque 3D MIT – P152<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I think I am starting to see an end in sight for the second milestone of this project. The objectives that I have left to accomplish are: Fully Implement and Verify the Planet scale Reimplement\/fix player collision Additional Levels of Detail for short view distances Additional Levels of Detail and support for long view distances, […]<\/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-3262","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\/3262"}],"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=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}