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Originally Posted by Szlia  Feedback N°1: There is no grass at the bottom of lakes.
Feedback N°2: The number one thing that is ugly in most of digital terrains is how elements connect together. That is how a tree connects with the ground or, in your screenshot, how a body of water connects with the ground around it, etc. So a nice touch to your engine would be an automated river bank generator of some sort. Try to base your work on some photo material or better: go check some lakes and rivers yourself! Even if you fail to implement it properly, your professors might find the method commendable.
As for me, I am still doing weekly para-games on Retro Sabotage. |
The 'grass' at the bottom of the lake is coloured yellow so that's rock ok!?
I'm using the same texture for everything you see because I suck. I guess yellow grass + transparent blue water = green grass... didn't think of that thanks.
As for the conections... yeah your definatly right about that. You should see the buggyness I get with the sky and water, I took a screenshot to try and avoid those bugs.
The thing is that the Water and Sky where an afterthought as the whole point is the terrain editing functions (craters and mountains ect).
I think the sky is quite nice considering it was rushed in but the Water is just a big 2D transparent blue plane. I don't know if anyone can suggest anything to help the Water/Sky joins.
This is a new screenshot, I changed the water (really thanks for that feedback) and made a cliff pointing in a different direction in the background to show what I have to deal with with the sky. Any advice is marks towards my degree
I may have to raise the sky out of sensible reach of the terrain, but I do like how you can raise mountains above the sky.
EDIT: The closer I goto the water/sky the more accurate the join between them and the terrain is. I'm not using any level of detail stuff, unless texture mimmapping is doing something
