Terrain 6, 40km with 3.8 million objects

[Snake Man]

Terrain 6, 40km with 3.8 million objects

Technology demonstration terrain. Not a "real" terrain addon, randomly placed objects.







Large terrain of 4096 grid size, 10m cell size (comes to 40km x 40km) with 20480 x 20480 resolution satellite texture and 3.8 million objects (yes 3,800,000 objects).

Requirements: ArmA 2 Combined Operations, no addons needed.

Readme:

Tutorial Terrain 6 - 40km

ArmA 2 Combined Operations (arma2 + operation arrowhead).

4096 grid, 10m cell size, 20480 resolution satellite, 3.8 million objects. Terrain size is 40km x 40km.

This is technology demonstration terrain showcasing that you can indeed have large and detailed terrain with many objects. Vegetation is randomly placed, the few cities are placed semi randomly too. This is pure random generated terrain and no human manual work has been done to the object placement at all (this is just a tech demo).

Development and test machine is AMD FX-4170 Quad-Core 4.2Ghz, 16gb ram, nVidia GeForce GTX560. Framerates are full / normal. In map view (M) you detect slight sluggishness and this is because the terrain is so rough with many elevation changes in short distances. Map view sluggishness could be avoided by making smoother terrain, but since this uses 10m cell size for details, it was nice to pump in some roughness.

If you have any questions regarding editing, terrains especially, visit:

http://tactical.nekromantix.com/
http://tactical.nekromantix.com/wiki/

July 27th, 2012.
Snake Man, PMC.

Official PMC Tactical Forums Release Topic.

I'm happy to answer questions about developing this and other large terrains. You might also check PMC Editing Wiki terrain editing area for tutorials and info.

Download tut_terrain6_4096_10m.7z - 257mb
Torrent: Gameupdates.org.
Mirror 1: Armaholic.com.

[GossamerSolid]

This sort of looks neat, I'll have to download it and give it a shot. Could be a good map for some aerial combat or just a large battleground.

[TeilX]

how it works on normal computers? I worry about my maschine.^^

[ChrisB]

A few screenshots below.

I had a drive from the south straight north upto city 2, don’t really think the cities are needed to be honest. It’s a great terrain so far and would have been nicer with hunting huts or whatever here and there rather than the type placed. However it is a nice terrain for any type of conflict really, its spacious enough for tanks, although not sure how the ai cope yet, but great open light woodland, pos hidden terrorist training camps etc, maybe.
Lots to think about.

Anyhow the screenshots,' lake just southwest of city 2': click to open these then click again for full size and to see the fps counter:

@2000vd http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...716192948.png/

@3000vd http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...716185737.png/

@4000vd http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...716185277.png/


Different direction to show the fps reaction:
@2000vd http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...716205968.png/


So it is a high performance terrain.
One thing however, I put on the summer vegetation and got rid of ground clutter via lowering the object details to ‘Low’ settings, everything else is pretty much on very high other than aa in-game on ‘Low’ but FXAA on Sharp Filter ‘High’ settings, so as not to take anything from the tree’s also AToC = 6.

Edit: Forgot to say thanks for a great terrain.. just did a flight over averaging 38-40fps at 10000, so not bad. I never really use 10000 apart from sightseeing..

Edit & added: Few more aerial shots, the two highest having fps counter to give an idea of frame rate, which is pretty good for me so far..

These following two have everything on very high other than the aa as above..

@ 10000 http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...717380482.png/
@ 10000 http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...717411631.png/

Just messing around
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...717572947.png/

[griffz]

ahma , clutter is too dense. optimize it a little bit .

[Fogu]

Nice demo

[Foxhound]

Thank you very much for posting the release on our forums


Release frontpaged on the Armaholic homepage.

Tutorial Terrain 6 - 40km


Arma 2

[Dissaifer]

Truly cool. So, how'd you do it? Did you make a program external to create the map (admittedly ignorant)?

[Li0n]

I don`t understand what does mean "techology" here? Are you rewritten BIS engine with another method of rendering terrain? Or you demonstrating us BIS technology, but that is kinda weird, because you are not dev and all of us already experienced all published arma techs. Technology of what?

[Igneous01]

the technology here being its randomly generated/procedural terrain with clutter. Consider the amount of objects (3.8 million) and the satellite resolution, as well as cell size (which is 1/5 the cell size BIS maps use (5 times more detailed)) and the fact that its 40x40km (chernarus is 20x20km). The fact that he fly on this map with those settings and not get hogged down performance sounds like a tech demo to me.