Realtime Procedural Terrain Generation

Real-time procedural terrain generation through swarm behaviours

This paper explores research in progress on Swarm Intelligence related to Procedural Terrain Generation. Our aim is to develop means to provide useful and real-time terrain deformation using Swarm algorithms. We feel this could prove interesting for enhancing the experience of gameplay in some game genres such as Real Time Strategy (RTS), simulation or even platform games.

Procedural Terrain Generation With Fractional Brownian Motion

Terrain Synthesis By-example

Synthesizing terrain or adding detail to terrains manually is a long and tedious process. With procedural synthesis methods this process is faster but more difficult to control. This paper presents a new technique of terrain synthesis that uses an existing terrain to synthesize new terrain. To do this we use multi-resolution analysis to extract the high-resolution details from existing models a...

A step towards procedural terrain generation with GANs

Procedural terrain generation for video games has been traditionally been done with smartly designed but handcrafted algorithms that generate heightmaps. We propose a first step toward the learning and synthesis of these using recent advances in deep generative modelling with openly available satellite imagery from NASA.

A Procedural, Minimal Input, Natural Terrain Plug-in for Blender

This paper uses methods of terrain representation, creation and realism described in literature. In particular a combination of terrain synthesis using Fractional Brownian Motion, and erosion procedures is examined, as well as the procedural formation of rivers via squig curves. Other techniques are examined, such as Triangulated Irregular Networks and ridges generation are discarded in terms o...