How GL generates terrain from a bitmap
where can i see the algorithm?
Thnx
It doesn’t. That’s something you’d have to do yourself, and there are many ways you could do this.
I think you are refering to using a grey scale bitmap for the height of the terrain? To do this you would read in the greyscale bitmap. Then each pixel represents a vertex, and the color value refers to the height of the terrain. So you have heights ranging from 0 to 255.
Knew I had seen a link on the NeHe sight, this might help you:
http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=34
-Drew
[This message has been edited by jleffelm (edited 03-12-2003).]
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