These last few days, I've been taking a short break from hardcore gamedev. During this time I've been messing around with a terrain generator in JavaScript.
I'll be writing a tutorial on some of the techniques used here soon but until then, here are some screenshots. I took a screenshot after every major change so you can track the progress and the steps that were taken fairly well.
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| Basic terrain generation using 3 different Perlin values per tile. |
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| Modified water depth falloff . |
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| Added beaches. |
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| Smoothed out the Perlin noise and enhanced the water falloff further. |
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| Implemented a basic occlusion shader. |
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| Enhanced the shader. |
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| Implemented full ambient occlusion in the shader. |
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| Modified the water depth falloff even further. |
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| Added color interpolation for the heightmap and scaled terrain. |
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| Just a test to see what it would look like without an ocean. |
Hey, Davian. Have you had any contact with Vartib since his site went down? I'm still sad that he stopped. :( I liked his game a lot. It was really fun to read about and all. Too bad he lost interest . . .
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, this all looks great. Morf is quite fun, if a bit impossible. :) I keep dying . . . over and over again . . . gah! XD
Hey man, nice hearing from you. No I haven't and it is a shame, you're right. You should start blogging again as well.
DeleteI know 2 people on reddit finished Morf. So it must be possible!
Ha ha, yeah, it must be!
DeleteYeah, I'm actually downloading DarkBASIC Pro right now - I bought a tutorial book online and I should be good to go within a week or two of learning BASIC. It looks . . . totally different from JavaScript, which I used for the other thing I worked on.
What I'm going to be doing is making, to the best of my ability, a side-scrolling pseudo-RPG type deal. Just to see what I can do.
Great, let me know when you start.
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