I'm currently implementing GPU-Based Geometry Clipmaps after the paper in GPU Gems 2. I have a working implementation so far but currently I'm not able to implement the transitions between to different lod levels. I don't understand the principle behind it. In the example shader code there is only 1 texture lookup without a chaning mipmap level so how do they do the transitions? Do they use a extra texture for each lod level and encode the transitions into each texture? Or are they using one big texture with transitions encoded in it? Both would require to recompute all textures on each movement because of the transitions in them? Currently I'm using one big texture for all lod levels and simply shifting the texture in the vertex shader to achive a movement. When the camera reaches the border of the texture I update it. It would be great if there is a transition technique to preserve this. What possible transitions techniques are there and what are the pros and cons? Current State: (The artifacts are because of only 8 bit height data didn't yet find better data) Thanks in advance Ingrater

That makes sence. Thanks for enlightening me.

Regards Ingrater