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Outerra Engine => Ideas & Suggestions & Questions => Topic started by: John514 on September 10, 2013, 04:41:26 am

Title: Ideas that come at you at random moments!
Post by: John514 on September 10, 2013, 04:41:26 am
Here is one that came to me after returning home at 4 in the morning, after a wedding (Greek style!):

The terrain in Outerra is generated by a heightmap. If that is true, basicaly an image determines the height of the terrain.
That is for vertical elevation. What if there was a set of heightmaps that could be used horizontally?

Think about a horizontal terrain engine, using a small set of lengthmaps! :P  to make large amounts of buildings to populate   cities and wrap buildings around roads. The height of the building could be generated normaly by the vertical engine. :-\