How to create a terrain that is in the shape of a brain? Making an educational game.

Hi, noob here.

I am making an educational game and am trying to create the experience of the FPC walking on a brain.

Can anyone give me tips, or what to look up in order to do this more easily than using the terrain manager to make little brain bumps, etc?

I've heard displacement mapping might be a good strategy?

Thanks!

 

I'd recommend a tessellation shader or just biting the bullet and having a rather high res mesh. It can be quite performant still, surprisingly if it's just the one brain mesh.

 

Hi, thanks so much for your help. Could you point me in a direction to find such a mesh? Greatly appeciated.

 

Hi, the scale will actually be quite small. The user will be prescribed to walk down a certain path for a few minutes and will not be allowed to leave that path. They will mostly be just be able to look around and hear some educational audio I plan to record.

So wrinkly-brain-ground texture sounds perfect, could you direct me to some resources to help me do that? Perhaps a tutorial. Really appreciate the help!

 

This may help you:
http://www.alfoart.com/brain-text-effect-1.html

Go about halfway down to the texture data part. Hopefully that helps.

 

I would create a high res mesh, sculpt it with a ""brain pattern" . bake it to low res / normal and use this shader.
separate the walking colliders....test, tweak...test again?

just an idea.

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