This is a A prototype I made to learn about 3D engines and the rendering pipeline. It is a small application that procedurally generates terrain similar to the terrain in the game Minecraft.
- Terrain is divided into small chunks of 100x100x256 blocks. that are stored in memory using a key-value pair (key: chunk position, value: memory address).
- World rendering is done using the OpenGL rendering API and shader scripts that dictate the flow of data to and from the GPU.
- Custom game engine handles data sorting and provides simple first-person controls to explore the generated terrain.
- The application uses a Perlin noise algorithm to generate the continuous terrain
To compile the project, you will need to link the following libraries:
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GLFW, GLEW for OpenGL,
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libnoise for the Randomizer,
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SOIL2 for handling images.
