In my last term at Waterloo I took CS 488 which is the computer graphics course offered by the CS Department. The course culminates in a really open-ended final project where you can basically do whatever you want so I decided to take my game engine Emerson for a spin and try to develop a procedural terrain generator. It turned out to be kind of overkill for what the course actually required, but I did manage to tie for first place in the professor's \"best project\" competition.<\/p>\n
I completed this in about 3 weeks working from a fork of my Emerson renderer. The project required that your submission could run on Linux with a GeForce 8800 GT. Theoretically Emerson is pretty portable but that's never really been tested since I run Windows on all my machines. Luckily for once theory and practice actually gave the same results and it took less than a day to port things over.<\/p>\n
Some of the main features:<\/p>\n
All in all, I think it turned out pretty well and I'm planning to backport it to the mainline engine since it's the best demo we've got so far.<\/p>\n
These screenshots are 1920x1080 so they may take a while to open<\/p>\n
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