hi! i''m making a scorch based game in 3D, and i''d like to randomly generate my battlefield but i don''t know how.... could someone please direct me to a web page with some terrain tutorials or give me some ideas? ( i''m not using heightmaps ) thanks in advance follow the yellow brick road

If you want nice random terrain, generate a big ole flat grid of triangles in the xz plane, and deform them using the technique I describe in http://gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=117331.

Then when you have the basic technique down, try procedural texturing, improving the deformation (hint: FBM), LOD, etc.

HTH...
I.

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