Terrain, Water and Sky
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My project is coming along nicely but I would be so grateful if someone just could spend a small amount of time with me to create terrain, water and sky for the enviournment just to get things started off and I would be able to do the rest myself.
I have already created the DirectX 9 application and but it look very dull with no enviournment and I would be over the moon if the enviournment was put in. If you can help please reply to this post so I can talk more about it as it's only three simple things to do.
Thank you very much.
Andrew
I don't think someone will just spend a little time on the immense task you presented. Just to start:
The sky can be done by using a nice toned blue. Use this as the background colour of your scene.
You can also use a sky-box.
Water is a bit more difficult, but fortunately you can create stunning images without it, so I'll leave it open.
For the terrain you could use a simple mesh. You can create that in a 3d modelling program. If you want to get your hands dirty, you can go for height-maps. Take a look at this site, to get an idea. It's in C#, but the basic principals are the same. You can also read the heights in from a file, as in the next chapter. A search on Google provides enough code examples.
I don't know if you can use shaders in your project, but if you can, I can provide some examples when using shaders.
Emiel
The sky can be done by using a nice toned blue. Use this as the background colour of your scene.
You can also use a sky-box.
Water is a bit more difficult, but fortunately you can create stunning images without it, so I'll leave it open.
For the terrain you could use a simple mesh. You can create that in a 3d modelling program. If you want to get your hands dirty, you can go for height-maps. Take a look at this site, to get an idea. It's in C#, but the basic principals are the same. You can also read the heights in from a file, as in the next chapter. A search on Google provides enough code examples.
I don't know if you can use shaders in your project, but if you can, I can provide some examples when using shaders.
Emiel
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Is anyone willing to help me, or should I look elsewhere as only I ask to help with a few things and no one is willing to help me.
[Edited by - AMcIntyre2010 on December 23, 2009 7:03:35 AM]
[Edited by - AMcIntyre2010 on December 23, 2009 7:03:35 AM]
I'll help you
1) Water: This is extremly complicated: You'll need to get into advanced shader, frenels, reflections, bla bla bla. BUT!!!! i have an easy solution for you!!! Go to this website http://www.magicindie.com/ and download the Aquatica Engine, a well documented, nice looking water engine for Direct3D 9.
2) Terrain: There is a lot of tutorials for terrain out (most of theme are for OpenGL, so they'll require a little translation on your part) but I'll give you a little sample here (Note this is a brute force approach:
1) Water: This is extremly complicated: You'll need to get into advanced shader, frenels, reflections, bla bla bla. BUT!!!! i have an easy solution for you!!! Go to this website http://www.magicindie.com/ and download the Aquatica Engine, a well documented, nice looking water engine for Direct3D 9.
2) Terrain: There is a lot of tutorials for terrain out (most of theme are for OpenGL, so they'll require a little translation on your part) but I'll give you a little sample here (Note this is a brute force approach:
// width/depth float w = (vertCols-1) * dx; float d = (vertRows-1) * dz; for(int i = 0; i < vertRows; ++i) { for(int j = 0; j < vertCols; ++j) { DWORD index = i * vertCols + j; v[index].pos = verts[index]; v[index].pos.y = // Get you height from TGA image; v[index].tex0.x = (v[index].pos.x + (0.5f*w)) / w; v[index].tex0.y = (v[index].pos.z - (0.5f*d)) / -d; } }
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Hi,
I don't mean to be annoying but would I be able to contact anyone here by e-mail so I can send all the code I have created already as it would fantastic to have the enviournment by the beginning of January.
Thank you
Andrew
I don't mean to be annoying but would I be able to contact anyone here by e-mail so I can send all the code I have created already as it would fantastic to have the enviournment by the beginning of January.
Thank you
Andrew
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