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Original post by sandy I was looking forward to a good article, but sadly disappointed. IMHO the Bloom article is excellent. In fact I implemented the technique beautifully into our engine from Bloom's article. This new article does not really add to, or simplify Bloom's original article in any way as it seems to me. In fact, the sample application is very poor, I thought. All it does is render a single quad using a few different textures and pre-generated alphamaps. This is not "splatting". The idea of splatting is that the alphamaps are created on the fly (at run-time) based on a textures influnce at any point on the terrain. Any monkey can create some alphamaps in photoshop and render textures on a quad using them. Glasser even goes on to mention a flaw in the system (i.e. seems) that he has not found an elegant solution for. This makes me wonder if he has even read Bloom's article? Bloom solves this problem quite well by creating alphamaps not just based on the current chunk, but also the eight surrounding chunks. This ensure that the alphamaps matches at the edges, eliminating the seems. If anyone is serious about implementing texture splatting, just stick with Bloom's article. You can't go wrong.