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Terrain Deformation
« on: December 05, 2010, 02:09:03 pm »

I know a while back you said making craters would be possible although we would all have to endure a horrifying 3ms delay in their creation. Do you think that something like this would also be possible?

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I presume a mound of broken asphalt was left there. Most likely soft and compact-able.
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2010, 03:18:53 pm »

That looks interesting. I presume effects like that could be modeled as animations, but that would have a generic look. Maybe there could exist a deformer effect, that takes the underlying land data and tears it over a dynamic volume comprised of exploding particles. That would make the initial phase much more natural, instead of dirt flying through.
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