Terrain-Generation-Study
Using Perlin noise to generate a map texture and then generate an LOD enabled terrain mesh from the map.
About:
This was going to be my attempt at creating a No Man's Sky-esque planet/terrain system. The planet would share the same map as the terrain and when a ship would land, the appropriate terrain chunks would be generated. I however lost steam after implementing the terrain chunk LOD system and never got around to the UV, transform, and spherical coordinate system translating. If I create a similar project in the future I will use this as the basis.
Features:
- Implements a port of LibNoise for C# for noise generation
- Octahedron sphere procedural generation
- Color mapping based off of noise map values
- Terrain chunk generation based off of noise map
- Circular buffer implementation to allow terrain chunk wrapping
- Terrain chunk LOD system for better performance
- Threading for map generation
Planned, but Never Implemented:
- Fix seams between terrain chunks
- UV, transform, and spherical coordinate translation
- Landing on planet generates appropriate terrain chunks
- Planet rotation
- Planetary generation from seed
- Longitude/Latitude system
Screenshots:
LOD System Video: LOD.mp4 in this repo.
Flat Color Map Generation
Octahedron Sphere Planet Generation
Mesh Generation
LOD System
