Rendering a landscape, how can i blend a texture to make the transition between two (or more) textures?. I had seen this stuff in some terrain demos. Thanks.

Multi-texturing? Just a guess as to one way you could do this. Essentially blending textures together.

Do you mean like as you go up the side of a mountain you blend smoothly from a grass to a rock texture ?

If so then you can do it by rendering it twice and having per vertex alpha blending on the second go, ie you have a quad you want to blend the textures across

***********************
***********************
*Grass**Blend****Rock**
***********************
***********************
***********************

So you render it once as all Grass and then render it again, with the alpha values set at the vertices as shown:

0.0
*********************** 1.0
***********************
******Rock*************
***********************
*********************** 1.0
0.0

and using the blend function glBlendFunc( GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA );


so the code would look like:

glEnable( GL_BLEND );
glBlendFunc( GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA );

glBegin( GL_QUADS );

glNormal3f( 0.0f , 1.0f, 0.0f );

glColor4f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f );
glTexCoord2f( 0.0f, 0.0f );
glVertex3f( ... );

glColor4f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f );
glTexCoord2f( 1.0f, 0.0f );
glVertex3f( ... );

glColor4f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f );
glTexCoord2f( 1.0f, 1.0f );
glVertex3f( ... );

glColor4f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f );
glTexCoord2f( 0.0f, 1.0f );
glVertex3f( ... );

glEnd();


You could probably also do this by using the multi-texturing extension but i don't know how to do this yet

dan

ps watch out! i think i might have the corners in the wrong order...


Edited by - Danack on 4/27/00 5:33:38 AM

Thanks for your reply Danack!!!!