GPU-Terrain-Generation

Procedural Terrain Generation using the GPU

Goal

Terrain Generation on the GPU with increasing level of detail using tessellation depending on the camera position.

Blog

http://GPUTerrain.blogspot.com/

Paper

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByOcNCoXcDPCX0VvblpLczF0X2s/edit

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHYHj8MzRVQ&feature=youtu.be

Controls

case 'z': case 'Z': Move forward in z

case 'x': case 'X': Move backward in z

case 'w': case 'W': Move up in y

case 's': case 'S': Move down in z

case 'a': case 'A': Move left in x

case 'd': case 'D': Move right in x

case 'm': Display Mesh

case 'M': Display Shaded Terrain

case 'i': Decrease Inner Tesselation

case 'I': Increase Inner Tesselation

case 'o': Decrease Outer Tesselation

case 'O': Decrease Outer Tesselation

case 'k': Decrease Inner Tesselation 2

case 'K': Increase Inner Tesselation 2

case 'l': Decrease Outer Tesselation 2

case 'L': Increase Outer Tesselation 2

case 't': case 'T': Default Tessellation

case 'c': case 'C': Display Occlusion

case 'v': case 'V': Display Depth

case 'n': case 'N': Display normals

case 'f': Display Fog

case 'F': Don't display fog

case 'g': Display fog based on depth

case 'G': Display fog based on height

case 'q': case 'Q': Disco Light effect On/Off - Click anywhere after enabling to get different colors

case 'b': Deform - blast mode. After selecting 'b' click on the screen to get the blast effect

case 'h': case 'H': Display using height map

case 'r': noiseLacunarity Decrease

case 'R': noise Lacunarity Increase

case 'p': noise Gain Decrease

case 'P': noise Gain Increase

References

• GPU Gems 3 - Generating Complex Procedural Terrains Using the GPU (http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch01.html)
• http://outerra.blogspot.com/search/label/fractal%20terrain - My Lecturer for the course, Patrick Cozzi, sent me this link for reference