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Direct3D Landscape Generator 
Dan (3 replies, 2204 views) (2004-Apr-28)
Dan (3 replies, 2204 views) (2004-Apr-28) If your able to understand principles simply by reading uncommented code, then you may find [url="http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=1715"] this open source app [/url] useful for learning by.
The program accepts any bitmap up to 181 pixels in size and creates a 3D landscape from it which you can walk around in real time. It supports both hardware and software rendering. Demonstrates some basic collision detection, as the camera hovers just above the ground.
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 | Pretty freaking sweet if ya ask me.  That's really cool. Question, how do you make the sample textures/bitmaps. do you have to do it by hand or what. The images are 256 greyscale bitmaps that can be any size upto 181 pixels square.
The bitmap is used as a height map - pure white representing the highest point and black the lowest - anything in between is set according to the weight applied. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
