LandSteel

Try to start a procedural planet as wide as earth. Starting code for Unity is http://code-phi.com/infinite-terrain-generation-in-unity-3d. Code for planet terrain generation is adapted from http://libnoise.sourceforge.net/examples/complexplanet/index.html.

What's have been done

• Calculating height of terrain with a distance to a virtual plane touching the earth's surface at a specific lat/lon
• Using a QuadTree to draw terrain from First person camera to far distance (50Km)
• separate scene with sphere world and texture (3d world map)
• Adapt terrain heightmap border dynamically (prepare work to connect different Quadtree levels)
• Use the QuadTree to avoid 25% point calculation when split.
• Use the QuadTree to create terrain chuncks while ethan walk on fusion (use children heightmap to create the parent one)
• save generated height map in a cache on disk

What's need to be done

• lat/lon clamping to have a finite number of planes touching the earth's surface
• save generated height map in a distributed mongo file system: collaborative terrain generation
• Connect Terrain from different quadtree level (not native in Unity...), in first step adapt border height map to match neighbor (smaller chunck repeat height value of the parent on border)
• Adapt terrain chunks height locally to have a better resolution (will it suppress the flickering ?)
• Work on terrain texture
• Add sea at level 0
• Manage the rivers (see the last noise module)
• Reactivate sphere map, add a click on map to teleport ethan at lat/lon
• Add menu in sphere map scene and Noise Seed parameters to choose the world

What idea for the future

• Use a noise module (perlin or more) to generate weather and weight it with season (day of the year)
• Use a noise module (perlin or more) to generate trees (perlin value is density proba to find a tree) weight it with lat/lon
• Use a noise module to generate town position and size.
• we can also generate maze or house.

And what can we do with this ?

A new world of adventure. Whe just have to write an adventure in a already existing world. An RPG engine depending of Rpg type is needed.

Screenshots

At Ethan level (in game) Look carefully you can see Ethan Now whe cannot see him anymore