James 🐉

virtual worldbuilding

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

i made a galaxy flight simulator with real 3D surface data

coded with @cursor_ai @grok

uses @threejs @CesiumJS

link to play in the comments

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@COLREGS2008 those came pre-labelled with the satellite imagery but there's better ways to do it, e.g. with LiDAR and probably computer vision

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

🌳 masking regions of 3D satellite terrain

vegetation -> soil/barren -> rock -> snow

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@COLREGS2008 this is satellite data - imported DEM + satellite imagery. no procedural terrain in this example

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

ah got you i think the best way would be to get a load of heightmap meshes, export them into Blender, resize and arrange according to your terrain in a kind of ring structure, and then merge / blend them together. I'm not an expert on Blender or other standard VFX tools tho you'd have to watch a tutorial

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

adding flow texturing to Jedi Survivor style terrain 🌵

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

if I understand your question it's basically that a lot of these tools create finite terrain "planes" with lots of creative expression but are ultimately limited in scalability and aren't true "planet engines"

fundamentally it's because they aren't purely procedural so they can't be extended without manual artist intervention (although I hear Gaea is trying to fix this with their next update). you see a lot of game studios (No Man's Sky, Star Citizen) have their own in-house engines but these aren't commercially available

these are the exact problems I'm solving with my engine so stay tuned :)

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@mlsprwr yep it's basically a purely procedural version of Gaea atm

next will be:
- river animations and environmental effects
- 3D noise structures
- eventually urban environments

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@_TheChrishunk my own software for purely procedural terrain

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@BluesDank @arpeegee @Halo_VFX no worries my man i'll take it as a compliment

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@emilalizadeh_ my own software :) influenced by Gaea but fully procedural and more advanced features to come

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@arpeegee @BluesDank @Halo_VFX correct yeah it's my own built with WebGPU

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@dungeonpunk terrain is a lot easier than physics systems tho

you can start with procedural noise for fast realism :)

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@georgevibing based on the flow patterns (how water falls down the terrain) rather than height

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

Crimson Desert style terrain in under 1 minute 🏔️

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@dxcore35 my own engine, possibly releasing soon as free browser version

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@bossfightgamesX i make no apologies

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@virtueofnovelty when you've been conditioned your whole life to chase status badges and achievements, money is a nice clean number to distill all your self-worth into

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@NFLMemes cope, you can get 80% of the way there by sleeping more, eating less, and trying to move to a sunnier city

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@milos_gis thanks Milos, accurate buildings will be coming soon

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

🌎 photorealistic environments in the browser

100% procedural

coming soon

[James 🐉 @jbelevate]

@kirillotron this is cool af man. DM'd you