{"id":1001,"date":"2009-12-23T22:52:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T11:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2009-12-23T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T11:54:08","slug":"terrain-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/12\/23\/terrain-transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrain transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Transitions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1000\" title=\"Transitions\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Transitions-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Transitions-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Transitions.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So I&#8217;ve got a first pass at smooth transitions between SubRegion patches in place (there are about six subregions visible in this screenshot), and I&#8217;ve reached two conclusions:<\/p>\n<p>First, you can get some pretty epic landscapes really easily this way.<\/p>\n<p>Second, it&#8217;s way too slow in its current form, and will need some extreme optimisation. \u00a0The slow bit is creating an interpolated &#8220;Terrain Style&#8221; for every terrain vertex which is in a border between subregions&#8230; mostly to do with interpolating terrain colors, which is complicated due to the 4D color space with flexible gradients that I&#8217;m using.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll think of some optimisations for these calculations. \u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure that this is the right direction for me to be going; \u00a0just need to solve the tech issues. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve got a first pass at smooth transitions between SubRegion patches in place (there are about six subregions visible in this screenshot), and I&#8217;ve reached two conclusions: First, you can get some pretty epic landscapes really easily this way. Second, it&#8217;s way too slow in its current form, and will need some extreme optimisation.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-g9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}