First of all I am new to writing blogs, so I might be unstructured with expressing my work progress and thoughts here. Secondly I am also a bit busy with my undergraduate research work, so I am stealing time from where ever I can get and the result is delayed blog entry. But from now onward I will try to be regular and will post weekly updates. So with that said, finally I got some time to jot down my progress for the first week and experience of this adventurous journey.
My first milestone is all about adding custom pseudo random height-map generator to PySoy. Well this would be a beginning for creating a terrain editor but for now I just want to make sure that a playground for procedural landscape building can be set up. So for this, I need to implement a basic Simplex Noise generator for two dimensional surface which will give us our elevation data.
So the first step was to fix the landscape_example which is the only example demonstrating the API calls for Landscape and Heigtmap. So after a couple of days of extensive testing and understanding the code flow, I finally found that the Landscape class which is inherited from Scene class are having mutex conflict. The render function from Scene class which calls the render_extra function from Landscape class are having a mutex conflict on the account for having same name for the mutex variable. Apparently the mutex was defined publicly and the Landscape class was not able to get a lock while updating the landscape.
And here comes my first commit, though I just solved a tiny bug but it taught me the real work-flow of the above two classes. Unfortunately the landscape example was now working but not as expected, there was no landscape in fact. Well later I came to know that a code push from another student in the Scene class, created a minor graphics anomaly which I solved after some trail and error.
Voila! The landscape example is now working perfectly fine. And here is a screen shot.
So now I just have to start working on the noise methods for automated heightmap generation. I will cover the later half of the week in my next blog entry. So keep reading my blog to know more about my progress.
My first milestone is all about adding custom pseudo random height-map generator to PySoy. Well this would be a beginning for creating a terrain editor but for now I just want to make sure that a playground for procedural landscape building can be set up. So for this, I need to implement a basic Simplex Noise generator for two dimensional surface which will give us our elevation data.
So the first step was to fix the landscape_example which is the only example demonstrating the API calls for Landscape and Heigtmap. So after a couple of days of extensive testing and understanding the code flow, I finally found that the Landscape class which is inherited from Scene class are having mutex conflict. The render function from Scene class which calls the render_extra function from Landscape class are having a mutex conflict on the account for having same name for the mutex variable. Apparently the mutex was defined publicly and the Landscape class was not able to get a lock while updating the landscape.
And here comes my first commit, though I just solved a tiny bug but it taught me the real work-flow of the above two classes. Unfortunately the landscape example was now working but not as expected, there was no landscape in fact. Well later I came to know that a code push from another student in the Scene class, created a minor graphics anomaly which I solved after some trail and error.
Voila! The landscape example is now working perfectly fine. And here is a screen shot.
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