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Re: Thoughts on the editor
Posted By: Loren Petrich <petrich@netcom.com>	Date: 10/29/99 12:00 a.m.
In Response To: Thoughts on the editor (Mark Levin) > Another issue that comes up when dealing with a whole world is > scale. Loathing's interface isn't that good for building large > things, you edit on the range of a few dozen polygons. What if > you want to make a giant hill a mile across? ... An alternative approach is to import height maps as image files. Only the luminosity value would get used, of course. > Another tool I think would help with large-scale mapping would > be a "random scatter" tool, like Painter's image hose. ... Alternatively, one could lay out various zones that would have lots of randomly placed small stuff. One would do various tricks to get realistic sorts of spreads. For example, if one wants a map with lots of sagebrush, one ought to avoid having the sagebrush bushes too close together. One way would be to give each bush an exclusion zone around it that no other bush may be in; trial positions for new bushes would then be generated randomly, and these bushes would be "planted" only if those positions were outside the exclusion zones of existing bushes. Such a scheme may require dividing a surface up into sectors, in order to speed up testing for exclusion (bushes away from neighboring sectors can be ignored), but I suspect that the Halo engine will do something similar anyway, for similar reasons.

Message Index

Thoughts on the editor	Mark Levin	10/28/99 10:12 a.m.
Re: !!!!Very nice... Bungie, I have an add on...	Mage	10/28/99 3:57 p.m.
Re: !!!!Very nice... Bungie, I have an add on...	Loren Petrich	10/29/99 12:06 a.m.
Re: !!!!Very nice... Bungie, I have an add on...	Mark Levin	10/29/99 12:34 a.m.
Sheesh...	Chris	10/28/99 4:58 p.m.
Don't get your panties in a wod	Gandalf	10/28/99 5:49 p.m.
Actually...	Mark Levin	10/28/99 5:52 p.m.
Re: Actually...	Island Four	10/28/99 7:58 p.m.
Re: Actually...	Frost	10/29/99 12:00 a.m.
Re: Actually...	Loren Petrich	10/29/99 12:14 a.m.
Re: Actually...	Giule	10/28/99 10:45 p.m.
Re: Thoughts on the editor	Loren Petrich	10/28/99 10:57 p.m.
Re: Thoughts on the editor	Loren Petrich	10/29/99 12:00 a.m.
Re: Thoughts on the editor	Mark Levin	10/29/99 12:46 a.m.
Re: Thoughts on the editor	Traxus	10/29/99 8:19 a.m.