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A scenery generator is software used to create landscape images, 3D models, and animations. These programs often use procedural generation to generate the landscapes. If not using procedural generation to create the landscapes, then normally a 3D artist would render and create the landscapes.
2D terrain map generation. [27] [non-primary source needed] Fractal Block World: 2021 Dan Hathaway Recursive 3D landscapes made of cube blocks. [28] Islanders: 2019 Grizzly Games 3D terrain generation of islands. [29] Left 4 Dead 2: 2009 Valve: Gameplay changes to match player's performance, such as enemies, paths, or weather. [30] Minecraft ...
It can also use DEM (digital elevation model) files, and other graphic surface maps for rendering. A commercial version of the software is also available and is capable of creating larger terrains, renders with higher image resolution , larger terrain files, and better post-render anti-aliasing than the freeware version.
A procedurally generated dungeon map in the video game NetHack. Prior to graphically oriented video games, roguelike games, a genre directly inspired by Dungeons & Dragons adopted for solitary play, heavily utilized procedural generation to randomly produce dungeons, in the same manner that tabletop systems had done.
Example of texture splatting, except an additional alphamap is applied. In computer graphics, texture splatting is a method for combining different textures.It works by applying an alphamap (also called a "weightmap" or a "splat map") to the higher levels, thereby revealing the layers underneath where the alphamap is partially or completely transparent.
Computer generated fractal terrain using Perlin noise with Adobe Photoshop and Terragen. Computer-generated fractal wooded hills using Visual Nature Studio. Whether or not natural landscapes behave in a generally fractal manner has been the subject of some research.
Maps are useful in presenting key facts within a geographical context and enabling a descriptive overview of a complex concept to be accessed easily and quickly. WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions.
Heightmap comes from the mathematical term 'map' and heightfield comes from the mathematical term 'vector field'. Heightmap is the more correct description because most heightfields are not a (vector) field in mathematical terms but they are always a map (in mathematical terms as well as in the visual representation).