Best way to chunk "static" terrain?

tinfoilboy · October 17, 2014, 9:39pm

In this game I’m making, the terrain will be generated when playing has started, but during the game, people will be able to place things. So I was wondering, what would be the best way to chunk that static terrain originally? And how would I go about implementing that?

Ecumene · October 18, 2014, 4:52am

All depends on how you’re handling your ‘terrain’. Can you give us some more info, like what kind of geometry are you working with? It also really depends on your dimensions. (1D is sidescroller, 2D is topdown, 3D is … 3D).

Here’s a un-licensed simplex noise utility:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/KdotJPG/b1270127455a94ac5d19

OpenSimplexNoise.java

/*
 * OpenSimplex Noise in Java.
 * by Kurt Spencer
 * 
 * v1.1 (October 5, 2014)
 * - Added 2D and 4D implementations.
 * - Proper gradient sets for all dimensions, from a
 *   dimensionally-generalizable scheme with an actual
 *   rhyme and reason behind it.
 * - Removed default permutation array in favor of

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OpenSimplexNoiseTest.java

/*
 * OpenSimplex Noise sample class.
 */

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import java.io.*;

public class OpenSimplexNoiseTest
{

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Basically just generate a 2D int array and let those be your ‘y’ values. (assuming it’s 3D)