Comments on Free Gamer - open source games: Open Source 3D Landscape Generators

Good stuff Q, nice post!

2009-03-16T22:11:00.000Z

Good stuff Q, nice post!

Worldforge has it's own terrain generation library...

2009-03-15T14:13:00.000Z

Worldforge has it's own terrain generation library called Mercator. It's all GPL and a short demo can be seen here.

You should also include GeoMorph for heightfields....

2009-03-14T23:07:00.000Z

You should also include GeoMorph for heightfields. And in danger of tooting my own horn, I have a set of highly experimental sources "Flow Motion" for manipulating heightfields over at http://tjwhaynes.googlepages.com/heightmapeditingtools

If you want to see what you can do with GeoMorph, Flow Motion and the GIMP, you can take a look at http://tjwhaynes.googlepages.com/dropteamresource

I have no idea if I'll update the flow motion tools. They do have one really useful feature - you can define a road layout using an image editor and apply it to a height map to get smooth, believable roads.

ginkgo: mostly python, but there is some C code in...

2009-03-14T00:50:00.000Z

ginkgo: mostly python, but there is some C code in there and I'm unfortunately too inexperienced to compile it without a makefile (which is not available)

:(

I'll ask on the FGD forums for help!

Hey, your post comes just in time as I started loo...

2009-03-14T00:13:00.000Z

Hey, your post comes just in time as I started looking for a useful heightmap editor myself. :D

This also looks very promising:

http://sc4terraformer.sourceforge.net/

It's Windows only though. :(

Nice list on a cool blog. However, I'd like to see...

2009-03-13T09:56:00.000Z

Nice list on a cool blog. However, I'd like to see some other apps included and maybe tested:

http://www.bottlenose.demon.co.uk/share/fracplanet/index.htm

http://planetgenesis.sourceforge.net/

http://www.witchspace.com/landscape.html

http://de.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/heightmapper?content=31243

There's also the one being worked on for DungeonH...

2009-03-13T00:26:00.000Z

There's also the one being worked on for DungeonHack.

Fair'nuff. No p*ssing match here. I missed the mar...

2009-03-12T21:17:00.000Z

Fair'nuff. No p*ssing match here. I missed the mark with free/libre open source software. Was just a program I'd run across in the past and was eager to share.

kyle: this blog is not about freeware, it's about ...

2009-03-12T20:47:00.000Z

kyle: this blog is not about freeware, it's about open source...

This one belongs in the comments.Terragen:http://w...

2009-03-12T17:40:00.000Z

This one belongs in the comments.

Terragen:
http://www.planetside.co.uk/

This is a hot topic for Hardwar where we're findin...

2009-03-12T16:55:00.000Z

This is a hot topic for Hardwar where we're finding it very difficult to find anything that fits what we need.

We need a terrain editor which is able to make caves and it looks like we're going to have to come up with something home done if we want to do it with heightmaps.

Also you missed one project which is part of WorldForge called Mercator.

https://launchpad.net/mercator

Scorched3D does terrain generation.

2009-03-12T12:28:00.000Z

Scorched3D does terrain generation.