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DX11 Hardware Voxel Terrain (your opinion)

Matthew Latham · 2014-04-26T23:26:51

Now that I'm learning DX11, there are a few new options open to me using hardware (video card). I've been eyeing http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch01.html and was wondering what experienced programmers think and know. My concerns are as follows: -- how much control would I have during generation? What kinds of controls are there? -- when the terrain is generated, how would I get info about the "height" of a specific location on the terrain? -- could I implement LOD to this terrain? How? Remember, I'm asking about DX11, not DX9.......

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Started by Hawkblood April 05, 2014 01:35 PM

10 comments, last by Hawkblood 9 years, 12 months ago

Eric Lengyel

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April 26, 2014 03:40 AM

Wow. What a mess of a file. When I clicked the link for the "lookup tables" it came out as a hot mess. Here is a more coherent format:TransVoxel.txt

EDIT: I originally placed it in a code fragment, but the page takes forever to load that way. So I uploaded it as a .txt file.

The lookup tables are nicely formatted. If you're seeing a file that you wouldn't consider nicely formatted, then there's something on your end screwing it up. I suggest saving the file Transvoxel.cpp and opening it in Visual Studio.

I work on this stuff: Slug Library | C4 Engine | The 31st | Foundations of Game Engine Development | OpenGEX

Hawkblood

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April 26, 2014 11:26 PM

[Mod edit] The copyright holder of that file just asked for us to remove it, saying you don't have permission to be redistrubuting it

I didn't know it would be a problem as I posted ALL the code including the credits....

The lookup tables are nicely formatted. If you're seeing a file that you wouldn't consider nicely formatted, then there's something on your end screwing it up. I suggest saving the file Transvoxel.cpp and opening it in Visual Studio.

Sorry, didn't mean to step on your toes. I downloaded Transvoxel.cpp and opened it in VS2012. As I said it was a mess (in VS2012). Perhaps I have different settings, but for me to read it, I had to format it line by line because the file translated into a single line.

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