Heightmap Terrain flicker

[Colin]

i use depth format D3DFMT_D24X8, as for the size, it is 32x32 vertices scaled by 1500, i tried having the scaling very small and it was exactly the same problem, however i tried changing the near/far clipping plane and this seems to do the trick so thanks, what do you think would be a good value for these both?

[Dan]

the difference between the near and far plane should be as small as possible. I normally try not to go over 1000

[Colin]

excellent thanks, i will keep that in mind

about the landscape upside down, that is because i temporarily disabled culling, and the camera is starting below the surface, you can just fly up above the geometry - it is intended just for testing with for now

[Dan]

dont mind if I show off my landscape here?

[Colin]

that looks pretty good - i have moved onto texture splatting now, once i finish with multi-texturing my terrain, i will re-post also

[Colin]

seems i have broken something, i can't understand why this is happening, my code for loading raw heightmaps is as follows:

  SetLength(vertices, F_Vertices);
  iVertices := 0;
  AssignFile(f, filename);
  Reset(f, 1);

  // Loop across and up
  for iy := 0 to F_VertsY-1 do begin
    for ix := 0 to F_VertsX-1 do begin
      BlockRead(f, height, 1);

      // Create the verts
      vertices[iVertices].x := (ix*tScale);
      vertices[iVertices].y := height*tHeight;
      vertices[iVertices].z := (iy*tScale);

      vertices[iVertices].u := ix;
      vertices[iVertices].v := iy;

      Inc(iVertices);
    end;
  end;

  CloseFile(f);

I have not changed anything since last night regarding heightmaps, but today it is doing some weird sheeat

screenshot >



any ideas?


Never mind, seems my heightmap was corrupt

new screenshot >

[Dan]

looks much better than the first version
how are you doing the texture blending? (vertex mask? texture mask? do you use layers or blend the textures in a single pass?)