Hello,

is there any way (using Lite-C or other tools?) to convert bmp heightmap files in HMP files, then loading them in my game at runtime, withour using MED?

Thank you!

you may make a blank hmp(flat) with MED, then load it in the engine and deform it's vertices according to the brightness of each pixel of an image

thank you! But I think that method is feasible only for terrains of 128x128 (not chucked). Chunked terrains cannot be deformed in real-time :-(

surely it could be done on chunked terrain with a vertex shader and shader model 3.0?

julz

hello,

yes, with shaders, but in that case how can I manage physics?

with a little creativity it shouldn't be too hard to write your own functions that read a physics entity's position on the BMP and check if it's going through the ground and push it out. the complexity of such functions would depend on the precision you're looking for.

julz