Post #2453075
2026-01-13 21:39 UTC
I think I can now officially announce that I love this tool! How could I know I liked combining mathematical functions that much?
Beside, I created in a few hours this first version of my game map, which is way beyond anything I could cobble together in the last days (I was trying to combine real Earth elevation maps, but with disappointing results).
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@youen@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-01-13 21:43
To give an idea of scales, the map is 16x16km, which means the cliffs on the coast are about 300m high, and I don't know exactly but the highest mount probably 2km high. In-game we are really much closer than this preview. So the heightmap needs to be exported at high resolution (my target is 8192x8192), which means one point every 2m of terrain. I couldn't achieve such details with real elevation maps, and of course I can't draw that kind of data by hand.