The whole idea of this project is; to setup a way to project a tile world onto a sphere. The problem here is, that logically speaking, a square can not be displayed on a sphere and keeping its geometry. It is generally impossible. But maybe, there are some ways, to trick the viewer in believing, that it is possible.
At first, the World has to be generated. The https://github.com/Mindwerks/worldengine
projects is beeing used for this. To speed up the setup, we created a
script which uses docker for creating the generation process. just run scripts/create_world_in_docker.sh.
To enable a fluent change in zooming. A Grid system is implemented. Every GridElement has its own mesh object ob position of the world. As soon as it is zoomed into a GridElement, it will start loading children with a more detailed mesh. If the camera is a fair distance away, children of will be unloaded and removed. A simply lazy loading system.