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opengl-terrain-demo

Modern OpenGL terrain rendering for learning purposes. Dependencies: Assimp, DevIL, glew, glfw, glm.

Controls:

O, P -> Terrain height scale

K, L -> Target screen space triangle area (control tesselation)

G -> Toggle wireframe

F -> Toggle fog

1, 2, 3 -> Choose terrain (heightmap and normalmap)

0 -> Choose texturing mode (height/slope based and slope-only based)

Left Alt -> Toggle vsync

Requires driver support for OpenGL 4.5.

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Details:

  • Developed with C++, OpenGL and GLSL 4.5.
  • Base framework abstracting and simplifying the use of OpenGL objects: buffers, textures, VAOs, FBOs and shaders. Abstracts mesh and texture loading. Also helps with the management of scene objects and their respective meshes and materials.
  • The terrain is defined through a height map and a normal map.
  • Terrain has adaptative hardware tessellation (trying to generate triangles with the same screen-space area). Based on nVidia's Paper DirectX 11 Terrain Tesselation.
  • Multitexturing based on two criteria: altitude and slope.
  • GPU frustum culling is applied to the terrain on a patch level, on the tesselation control shader.
  • Single pass wireframe is implemented using nVidia's technique described on Solid Wireframe.
  • A basic shadow mapping algorithm is used to cast shadows on the terrain. Some percentage closer filtering (PCF) is applied to soften the aliased edges.
  • Fog is generated on the fragment shader as a function of distance to camera and altitude.

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Licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE for details.

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