Scrolling Terrain

September 14th, 2009 experiment no comments

The terrain is now scrolling. I’m not using a VBO so its a bit slow but that’s an easy fix. I now want to try and apply a sphere to the grid.

Terrain Height Maps

September 12th, 2009 experiment no comments

These are some terrain height maps built from NOAA’s Planetary Maps. The images are super high res about 2000×1500 pixels, the geometry is calculated and a display list is used for rendering. I think next im going to try and create a VBO out of the geometry so that I can alter the map in …