terrain engine on N64 - preliminary test

this terrain has 38,000 triangles. a simpler frustum culling is used to render only the tiles that are viewable. of course it's not perfect but who gives a shit.

direct framebuffer grab.
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/8788/cfbdump.png

the displaylist tool i wrote for this takes a 1025x1025 16-bit heightmap and 4096x4096 colormap and generates an optimized mesh, and also uses a form of entropy coding to pare down the colormap from 50 megabytes down to 32 kilobytes of textures.

one of the many things I did to keep framerate up was to ditch the z-buffer entirely. instead, the tiles are sorted by depth and rendered back to front.

the sky is a 1024x256 8-bit paletted CI image divided into sections with another tool I wrote a long time ago. I used about 6 of my tools for this one.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• n64
• homebrew
• terrain
• engine
• coding
• coder
• heightmap

[sipper2136]

The textures are so detailed it looks like it needs mipmapping xD

[lokilokiyeah]

Where's the Mako?

[TOCARPAUSARPARARREPE]

Cara, isso é fantastico!!! É bom saber que hoje em dia ainda a gente querendo fazer algo para o Nintendo 64!

[Naxylldritt]

Dude. Effing. Beautiful.

[alecjahn]

Fantastic as always.

[TheBardsSongCGS]

Impressive stuff.

[itziant]

so legit

[ShockSlayer]

The music makes it great

[LunaVorax]

Two words : Fucking great

[f34rther34pr]

thats quite impressive for the 64. nice work