The goal of this dissertation was to research current technology and techniques for the production of terrain systems in modern game engines. Evaulating serval choices led me to a low poly style hightmap based system which encoded as much data as possible into the heightmap itself to streamline memory access.

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This system was built in Unity 2018.3, but could be ported to C++ & OpenGL etc.

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Using Unitys built in LOD system this terrain can run on even low end hardware at the cost of longer build times.