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Development posts tagged terrain. Tags cut across the categories, so this pulls together work on the same subject from different parts of the game.
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The 3D ground samples exactly sixteen textures, which is WebGL2's guaranteed floor. Adding one more does not degrade the render. It fails the shader link.
March an army across a winter map and it carves packed trenches with lit rims. Four separate weather signals travel in the four channels of one texture.
A biome sounds like a colour scheme. In this game it is eleven tiling textures, a measured average colour, a rock language, a sky and a kind of weather.
The map used to be a flat plane with rock painted where you could not walk. Now the ground rises, cliffs block, ramps are the doors, and high ground sees.
Water used to be a wall. Adding one terrain value gave the map fords that infantry wade, ships crawl through and docks stand in, and broke three things.
Grass now bleeds into dirt along a warped contour instead of a grid of transition tiles, and the 2D and 3D views of a map finally draw the same world.
