Landscape

Landscape also called terrain.

Terrain can described with different approaches

• Terrain Cover: Vegetation,water,desert, dry,soil, snow, roads, buildings
• Landform: endogenic: internal forces ( tetonic, volcanic, hotspring)| exogenic: glacier forms, marine forms, karst forms (relief)
• Landmarks: high mountains,high plateau, low mountain, hills

And it can be further described by

• Terrain features: river,lakes, coast lines, roads, railways, settlements
• Natural ressources: soil,vegetation, geology, climate

In CG we try to replicate the reality. For this we use a heightmap. It describes the elevation in grey values from 0-255

Terrain Modeling

• Track AND Terrain thread on the Polycount forum.
• Welcome to CeleryLand! - by Jason 'futurepoly' Stokes, also see his Youtube channel.
• Pirate castle (UDK) - by Guillaume 'romy' Provost
• Blade & Soul Environments Polycount forum thread, plus info on large terrains in UE3 (Unreal Engine 3).
• How to make terrains for games - by 'choco'
• Erosion Terrain Tutorial - by 'choco'
• Best way to go about making Terrain? thread on the Polycount forum.
• (UDK) Helms Deep & Fort HornBurg - by Vincent 'ParoXum' Mayeur
• Landscape system in Unreal Engine 3 - by Epic Games

Terrain Texturing

• Terrain Advanced Textures - by Epic Games
• Landscape Materials in Unreal Engine 3 - by Epic Games
• Landscape Layer Blend thread on the Polycount forum.
• UDN UnrealEngine2 Vertex Blending Tutorial - by Epic Games
• Terrain Rendering in Frostbite using Procedural Shader Splatting - by DICE (Siggraph 2007)
• UE3 Terrain Tutorial - by Sjoerd 'hourences' De Jong
• EnvironmentSculpting#Tilable_Cliffs
• MultiTexture

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