Mark Fleischmann

Final Project - Fractal Terrain generator

Features:

• Creates random fractal landscapes from random numbers.
•  Read in bitmap images and texture map them on to the generated terrain.

Yet to be added:

• I would like to have been able to add a sky and better scale the mesh so that there is no clipping and so that you can't see past the landscape.
• A day and night environmental lighting scheme.
• A camera that allows you to better navigate through the scene.

Screen Shots:

Random terrain drawn in wireframe

Random teraain drawn with a texture map.

Random terrain drawn with another texture map.

Program usage:

• Press 'c' to toggle camera translations, click and drag the mouse to move the camera around.
• Press 't' to toggle mesh translations via a virtual trackball, click and drag the mouse to rotate the mesh.
• Press 'e' to toggle between wireframe rendering and texture mapped.
• Press 'l' to toggle the lights.
• Press 's' to generate to the program generate a new random terrain.
• Press 'm' to cycle between different texture maps. 

References:

Generating random fractal terrain: http://www.gameprogrammer.com/fractal.html