Displacement Generator
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Re: Displacement Generator
Posted by Penguinboy on Mon Feb 12th at 5:57am 2007


Hello, I am Penguinboy.

I released this over at TWHL a while ago for testing and i am proud to say that it has reached a stage where it is decent for others to see too.

It is a displacement generator. The program itself goes by the name of Twister, because of its original purpose of generating a twisted hallway, such as the one seen in LoZ: Ocarina of Time. The result is this:
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Then I continued to add features to get what it is now. you can generate twisted walls, curves and curved ramps, curved corners, circles, domes, cones, noise, and heightmaps. Texture alignment on all of them is perfect. (mostly)

I am still looking for ideas of what else to add into the program, a 3d preview has been suggested, but I have no idea how to code OpenGL, so that's out. I'm really just looking for ideas of what else to generate.

Feedback, ideas, tweaks, and crash reports will be appreciated.

A few things to note:
You will need the .NET framework 2.0
The auto-update function will attempt to connect to the internet at startup.

Download link: http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/penguinboy/Twister/Twister.html

And yes, I do realize that this has been done before, in a program called DispGen, but it has ceased development, and doesnt have enough options.

Thanks for your time.

PS: I think I posted in the right forum?




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Re: Displacement Generator
Posted by Stadric on Mon Feb 12th at 6:06am 2007


Well, you could have put this in the art section, but then it would be ignored. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">
I'm getting it now.



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Re: Displacement Generator
Posted by ding on Mon Feb 12th at 4:53pm 2007


Ownage - I'm getting it ASAP!



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Re: Displacement Generator
Posted by Orpheus on Mon Feb 12th at 4:54pm 2007


Calm down Master Ding. Its not a new 22" flatscreen. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">



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Re: Displacement Generator
Posted by reaper47 on Mon Feb 12th at 10:24pm 2007


Finally, a displacement generator that does more than simulating terrain! This could be gold. :o





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Re: Displacement Generator
Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Feb 13th at 2:02am 2007


I think I may have a graphical error (can't see the buttons):

http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=prevtx0.jpg

Ohh and great work, it looks more solid than the other one I've been using.






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Re: Displacement Generator
Posted by Penguinboy on Tue Feb 13th at 2:25am 2007


thanks, I'll look into the button colour thing.



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Re: Displacement Generator
Posted by BlisTer on Tue Feb 13th at 12:18pm 2007


works great

nice job




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