Don't necessarily need to make hyper-realistic just yet.

these things basically generate geometry with equations and then assign textures based on predetermined height map and plane size shit

it's not an overly complicated concept, but making it look believable is tough

Well, believable isn't actually that hard. This is believable. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdX3Rr

Albeit simple and it has kinks but that isn't even 50 lines of code.

Yeah but this has been fine tuned to give exactly that output

you're on about a generator

this is procedural generation

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ can't shadertoy on phone lol

check it out some time, you'll see what I mean

It starts from a particular seed but then the offset just goes up infinitely.

so it's constantly generating terrain

I watched the jewtube

looks pretty good but the textures are a bit...

yeah yeah like I said it isn't perfect

but it shows what is possible

in the mountains they join in sharp corners lol

but the point is passable is very easy

I haven't done graphic code in like 10yrs+

but ye easier than I expected

It's basically just a few layers of noise layered on top of each other with changing factors of intensity for each layer.

i guess this channel is geology now

So the most intense layer makes the large shapes, mountains, then a smaller layer makes bumps and hills, then finer details and such.

That weird canyon I made is just 4 generators combined together, +1 to lop-side the overall height of the other four. Each can be distilled down to a pretty understandable procedural pattern.

You can see how this pattern is drawn from the negative space of spheres.

This one, from the negative space of diamonds/pyramids.

Those two, plus a couple layers of noise and you have something that looks like a landscape.

Now, if we're talking something that literally looks like a replica mountain even in the minutia with trees, grass, accurate rock layers, then that takes more work, but to make something look passable isn't that hard.

export it into a minecraft map <:think_woke:378717098681171988>

https://www.facebook.com/PAASpotlight/videos/593270071048163/

gunpowder fire art by dino tomic

https://youtu.be/DwSm4WaE168 the UK police hate this guy

He should make a knife outta Flex Tape.

https://www.facebook.com/ZFirst2Know/videos/2368854596489047/ my brain:💥

Please excuse the poor lighting.

Strange, but I find it appealing that his head is sort of larger than the rest of his body

I mess that up a lot.

"Why so serious?"