Looks very cool! Are you gonna make a simearth type game with that?

Damned!

You're definitely the man!

Simply Brilliant!

I bet there's a lot of calls to srqt in there or something. How much time have you spent optimizing it?

Excellent!

Question about the textures: So, are they purely height based?

It looks great from far... how close can you go?

Jeez... now thats impressive. How far in does it zoom? and whats the fps count at min & max dist?

Steve

At farthest level away, a simple octagon:)

Just imagine what this could do for space games! Imagine a whole system of planets created using this method... :)

Is it possible for you to populate this planet? Like, could you put a enemy base or something down on the ground? I know that this planet is represented as a fractal and everything, but are you able to do things like at certain parts of the planet use terrain data that you created?

If you could, you could make a whole planet for exploring and stuff, but still be able to design levels (assuming this is a game... if you just want to simulate a universe or solar system, there isn't much need).

And you do not even need to model some part of the Land it self, i mean, you can let an algorithm determine to put a Base on to a specific location, and even create a city dynamicaly (maybe just some Boxes of different sizes). But that would create i very realistic World.

I always wanted that kind of Spacefighter game where you could fly to the surface of a planet...

It shouldn't be a problem to tesselate the Triangles more and more, to get very fine details on low altitudes. But is your texture dynamically changing, or is it just one big texture created once ?

Lars

A minute at the beginning of the demo - I take it that is for generating your multifractal triangles for your ROAM algorithm?

Is your perlin noise cloud algorithm based on the height of your terrian? (source code would be good here!!)

cheers
Si

Have you considered abstracting the generation of the planet into real world terms? I believe the original Civilisation for DOS back in 1990 allowed you to do a limited version of this. You chose how old the land was, the climate on the planet, and the chance for the ground to be mountanious or flat, and it generated a world on those parameters.

If you're doing a whole universe, you might be able to define parameters for galaxies instead.

Very very cool

Any chance of seing any sourcecode on this ?

Lars

Nice! BTW, would you mind sharing how you generated the textures? I really really like the texutres, and mine look so bad it's not funny.
If can, could you drop me a line(jesse@laeuchli.com) or post here?
www.laeuchli.com/jesse/

sqrts aren't that bad.. a cache miss or two is usually worse. That sqrts are REALLY EVIL is a common misconception among coders. They aren't as long as you only use them where you really need them. Sqrt approximations are usually unnecessary. There are some special cases though. Type "verlet physics hitman" into Google (without quotes) and check out the article you find.

Freaking sweet! Will you be releasing this algorithm anytime soon?

Very nice work!

for problems with fast sqrts, try this:

http://www.flipcode.com/cgi-bin/msg.cgi?showThread=00002548&forum=3dtheory&id=-1

a very, very fast approx, and a very fast, much bether approx.. somewhere around post 75 or something;)

A Very Well Done Work.
Congrats to your succesfull efforts on achieving this.

As a sugestions, foraa planetary scale, you could provide some properties to the planet, including the Land Base Testures, from which you derive the actual planet texture, so that you could do different types of planets (unlike earth), for example: Mars, Saturn, Tantoine(StarWars).

And what about Moons, asteroid belts (Saturn like), Commets, etc...

I bet ideias are easy to come to mind, but actually implementing them, like you did with the Planet Demo is the Hard Part.

See ya