Planetary engine

Earth ~150m dataset, fractal refined.
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=503094

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• earth
• engine
• fractal
• planet
• outerra

[SjaanK85]

This looks good, do you use procedural generation, like the infinity engine?

And is this just a engine test, will the detail be higher later on?

[cameni47]

@SjaanK85 It uses procedural refinement of real elevation data, +procedural placement of trees etc. This is rather old video, please check our newer videos too - higher video quality and terrain detail too

[Supertax2]

cool, looks very nice, have you heard of Infinity:the Quest for Earth? It contains of simular stuff.

[cameni47]

Thanks. Yes we know Infinity, but we ultimately aim for a game on Earth rather than a space sim.

[phongbong]

how Spore should have been.... :(

[lepermunna]

wow, those are some big beaches! :)

[stuchly1]

damn! what do I do to do something like that?

[Sourcecode01]

any code we can play of this at all? small demo at all :)

[Otaku35]

what methods did you use to realistically simulate the atmosphere?

[smokeb3atz]

i cant wait 5 years from now games r gunna be to much real life is gunna suck compared to most games

[rogerpenna]

yeah sure... remember that they dont release a proper game in like 15 years and Elite IV is as vaporware as Duke Nuken Forever.

[meuhey]

david probably has something massive under work that will blow everyone

[gogerychwyrndrobwll]

Anti-aliasing aside, probably the best terrain generation I've seen to date. Make the water darker and you're good to go.

[rogerpenna]

maybe you should sell the engine to David Branben from Frontier Developments, the makers of Elite (who plan on doing Elite IV someday)