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Around The World, Part 5: Wind pressure

Fri, 8 Dec 2023 by Thomas ten Cate · Comments
game development, Around The World

Last time, we got some basic wind patterns going. However, there’s still a problem.

Around The World, Part 4: Basic wind

Mon, 4 Dec 2023 by Thomas ten Cate · Comments
game development, Around The World

Now that we have a finalized height map of our generated world, it’s time to put something on the surface. But to know what to put there – forest, desert, grassland, ice – we have to know something about the local conditions. And to know those, we have to know about wind patterns.

Around The World, Part 3: Hotspots and erosion

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 by Thomas ten Cate · Comments
game development, Around The World

In the last post, we added the effects caused by tectonic plates: But there are more forces that shape our land. Hotspots What exactly a hotspot is, is still hotly debated.

Around The World, Part 2: Plate tectonics

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 by Thomas ten Cate · Comments
game development, Around The World

In the previous post, we tackled generation of continent shapes using Voronoi cells and set some base heights using curves and simplex noise: Last time, I already alluded to plate tectonics and how they affect geography.

Around The World, Part 1: Continents

Thu, 2 Nov 2023 by Thomas ten Cate · Comments
game development, Around The World

There’s this game concept that has been on my mind for years, and I can’t seem to let it go. You step into the wet, salt-crusted shoes of the naval explorers of old: Columbus, Da Gama, Magellan, Cook.