CAST II Megatexture Release

[Robert Kosek]

Photoshop cannot open a Jpeg2000 file. Can someone upload it compressed into a more friendly format? I don't have anything large enough to use otherwise.

[Mirage]

It looks very nice so far. Is there a way to disable vsinc??

Currently, you have to disable it in your driver options.

I would like to know how the framerate changes depending on the ammount of the map shown on screen.

There are also 3 detail levels switching by digit keys - 1, 2, 3.
Detail level affect number of triangles in the landscape and megatexture clipmap size (from 256x256 to 1024x1024).

I looked at the terrain closely and i noticed that it was animated or something. Can you describe what you do there? Do you use bumpmapping or do you blend two textures??

There are 4 textures - megatexture, detail texture, normarmal map and detail normal map. When light source moves the landscape ligting changes accordingly due to normal mapping technique used.

And eh.. i also like the sky texture very much
Keep it up.

Thanks.

Photoshop cannot open a Jpeg2000 file. Can someone upload it compressed into a more friendly format? I don't have anything large enough to use otherwise.

You can download Brennigs:
http://soft.softoogle.com/ap/brennig...oad-1511.shtml

it's an image viewer and opens jp2 files out of the box. Irfanview does it too. For Photoshop a jpeg2000 plug-in needed.

[Mirage]

Some english documentation is now available in addition to reference:
http://casteng.com/manual.shtml

[Mirage]

New release.
Added grass which is editable in CASTEd.
In Land demo a bloom effect can be toggled by "B" key.
Editor now supports drag&drop of resource files (at the moment .bmp and .obj) from Windows explorer directly into items tree.
Also a simple new material wizard added (accessible via Windows->New material).
Seems there is someone interested in C2 and Newton integration.
More detailed description
Official site
Official screen:

[chronozphere]

Wow.. That vegetation looks great. Did you make those textures??

Keep it up!

[noeska]

Just curious: is the tree procedural created from code. Or it a mesh created with another tool (carera5)?

[Mirage]

chronozphere, the textures are made in Photoshop from photos found in internet.
noeska, the trees are generated with Flora 3D
http://www.flora3d.narod.ru/
and then imported as a mesh.
This great tool generates good looking low polygonal trees but
unfortunately, its author wouldn't develop it further.
I'm planning a vegetation generator for the engine. It is needed anyway for serious outdoor scenes. Maybe someone interested in this too?

[noeska]

that is very low on my todo list. I read on an opengl implementation in the book More OpenGL Game Programming http://glbook.gamedev.net/moglgp/