Sustainable landscape reconstruction blog

Testbed Part 3: Real time environment

daniel.pletinckx — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 07:30:19 +0000

In unity the process is more or less the same. U need a plug-in though, that expands the standard Unity terrain tools. Its named 'TerrainComposer'.

In terrainComposer it's possible to populate from a color map, black and white map,… So load in the height map and all vegetation maps the same way as in E-on Vue.

Testbed Part 2: High poly landscape

daniel.pletinckx — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:55:07 +0000

In our case we continue using pre-rendering software E-on Vue.

Vue is an all in one package. It’s able to produce procedural materials, have volumetric clouds, plants, water, day/night cyclus, particles,… It’s possible to animate all these elements.

At first we create a square terrain and load in the saved heightmap (define the height scale, difference between the lowest and highest point in the heightmap).

Testbed Part 1: Models and vegetation maps

daniel.pletinckx — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:39:54 +0000

Working on landscape reconstruction is a process. It can also be used as a study model, and is almost never finished at the first time. That's why it is important to build all the elements as adjustable as possible.

We start by choosing a modeling software. Procedural modelling software uses parameters to contruct the 3D. So it’s easier to adjust over time than free hand modeling software. It’s mostly used for basic shapes. If your scene contains more complex shapes, Blender , 3Ds Max,… can be a better choice.

Content

daniel.pletinckx — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:14:31 +0000

This testbed shows the synthesis of 70 years of extensive research on the site of Ename, Belgium. Focus of the attention are the site of the Saint Salvator abbey, which was used for about nine centuries, and the near settlement of Ename, which was already inhabited in ancient time due to its fortunate position.

Sustainable landscape reconstruction test-bed

daniel.pletinckx — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:49:12 +0000

The goal of this testbed is to define a workflow to make virtual reconstructions, that contain procedural modelling of building elements, normal 3D models, object animations, virtual human animations and procedural landscape simulations, and their visualisations sustainable over time, software and computer platforms for a period of at least 15 years.