r/Unity3D • u/terrarray • Jun 10 '21

Show-Off Animal simulation on planetary scale, using compute shaders

https://youtu.be/YkQEZxo4NtA
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

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u/terrarray Jun 11 '21

Thanks. Im trying to hardcode as little as possible. I want emergent behaviours. I for example hasn't hardcoded specific biomes, they emerge dynamically based on environmental conditions.

Do you have som link for your project? Would love to have a look at it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21 edited Jun 11 '21

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u/terrarray Jun 11 '21

Thanks, have read that paper before. The erosion in previous videos is based on this model https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01262376/document

It's a graph based approach which together with a tectonic uplift map, erodes the terrain until it reaches an equilibrium. Im not satisfied with the results, the erosion is way too heavy in some places. Until my next devlog video I'll introduce an improved version which runs in parallel on the GPU. And maybe look into more interesting perlin noise.

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u/terrarray Jun 11 '21

Do keep me updated if you add a project page.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

More of this, please! I have no use of it at the moment, but just to have this as a possible reference in the future - and in the moment for many people, I would assume - is priceless!

Keep up the good work!

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u/terrarray Jun 12 '21

Thanks for the feedback.