Hi! First post here. I hope this is the right place to post this, and not specifically OpenGL since its the API I'll be using. I'm working on a project where we'll have height-mapped terrain, with a fairly long view distance (something like World in Conflict maybe but on a little bit smaller scale). So the idea we has was multi-texture the ground with these levels: 1. Base texture - low tiling 2. Detail texture - medium tiling 3. Full detail - ? Now it's a question mark because I'm not sure how we should proceed from there. I want to avoid tiling as much as possible for this. That level will be dedicated to draw out paths and certain pieces of land that aren't gonna be the same as the medium tiled one. A big chunk of the full detail one will probably remain transparent so that the actual ground is shown. Tiling is probably the easy way out, but it'll end up being dependent on the polygonal detail of the terrain. Something that can mess up when I'll implement a polygonal optimization for distant terrain geometry. Obviously we can break it down to smaller pieces of high detail textures and only load them when they're near the view, but with a project of the scale that we have and the amount of time given that option is far too risky. I was told there's a possibility of using decals, and I'm not really sure how that works. Can anyone point me in the right direction for what I should do? Thanks a lot, any help would be much appreciated. Jonny Lerner.

I hope this isn't frowned upon, but I really need to make sure this doesn't fall out of the first page before I get any responses, so.... BUMP!

Oh I do plan on using shaders, though as of yet I'm not quite as proficient with them as I'd like to be. They mentioned something about decals and splatters.
Can you direct me please to a helpful source on those?
I'm gonna start looking myself, but I'd appreciate an experienced point in the right direction.

Thanks!