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31 Jul 2024 02:28:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Drifting over the traps  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 16 Jul 2010 09:05:06
Message: <4c405902$1@news.povray.org>
Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Love it. I get a real sense of scale and space, although the realism lapses a
> little in the foreground. Of course, this is just a wip. :)
> 
> (I think this is a universal problem with landscapes - you need enough detail
> for a convincing foreground, but not so much that speed/memory is wasted in the
> distance. Either meshes and clever texturing, or some sort of level-of-detail
> system).

If I recall correctly, I did that with my patchwork height field macro, 
although the version I posted wherever I posted it might have had that 
part removed.  The macro set the precision of each height field so that 
it was about as great as the span of pixels occupied by it.

Regards,
John


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