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From: "Nathan Miller" <kiryu@aol.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: 3D Uneven Terrain
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 17:41:49 -0500
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Has anyone successfully used uneven terrain in there demos/games.  I am not
referring to simple unevenness, but rather designing a city with mountains
and such in a 3D modeling program and importing that as the terrain that the
player must cross.  These are the only theories I have been able to come up
with:

1) You make a data structure in addition to the tmd that represents the
terrain that divides the level into your average cell based world:
 struct mapdata
{
 int flag;
 //Link list containing items and such for cell
};
 mapdata level1[50][50];

or

2) you check the players height level directly with the tmd's vertex data

so my questions are:

1) What is the best method?

2) Please give an explination on how to use the method...


Your help will be much appreciated, Thank You

Nathan