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quddusaliquddus
Mar20-10, 01:31 PM
Hi :),
I am trying desperately to make this program work. The original program:

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-1998/jw-08-step.html?page=2
(http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-1998/jw-08-step.html?page=2)

works fine. When I tried to implement it in VB the whole thing works except there are no macroscopic features - as you can see its just rough between between points but there are no hills, plataus etc ...

Your help is appreciated. Thank you.

My VB code is here : Here (http://freetexthost.com/cw0w53qqln)

This is what i get (zoomed-out image):

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8379/95166269.jpg (http://img517.imageshack.us/i/95166269.jpg/)

Ive tried changing the value of the rough variable - everything between 0.1 to 0.99999 without success.

quddusaliquddus
Mar20-10, 01:37 PM
Could the values be getting overwritten as diffreent levels of diamond sqaure algorithm are being run?

quddusaliquddus
Mar20-10, 01:47 PM
Just checked the values - they dont seem to be getting overwritten once set.

Borek
Mar20-10, 02:06 PM
lol, I was playing with similar algorithms back in early nineties. Some snippets of my Pascal voxel code are still on the net. Part of the code was a plasma implementation - seems like that's the base of the code here as well.

Hm, seems like plasma is called "FractalTerrain" these days...

quddusaliquddus
Mar20-10, 02:13 PM
lol ... what did they used to call a green mop on a head in those days? Just kiddin :)