Planet Flight Scenery Change

Yes How do you do that? like say your near a planet from outer space and as you get near the planet or under planet cloud cover it changes into Dynamic Flat Terrain obviously a large Dynamic Flat Terrain how is that done?

 

That rather depends on how you set up your game. I've done a 'lunar lander' type game with a similar requirement. What we did was when you cross a certain distance (get closer than, say 10 km), you Switch to a new Scene that knows how to generate the Terrain based on the Parameters received. The important trick to avaid oscillating between scnenes is to make the revert back to the outer (far away / space) Scene only when after you increase distance by a different (greater) amount. 12 km worked for us. But in principle you load load high-detail Scenes and low Detail Scenes based on distance. The Advantage is that you at the same time can load an athmospheric flight model vs vacuum.

 

Yes well I would like to look at some example code as I have an idea of loading a level but not quite sure how that is done

 

Check out quill18creates on youtube.

Look up project mighty spud, he does exactly that

 

Does He? OK I will check it out

 

You can look up a technique called Quad Trees, used for planet terrain. It essentially creates more polygons by subdividing a part of the sphere as you approach it.

 

Thank you Quad Trees? I will look it up thank you