Final Installment: Procedural Island Generation with CartoKit - Baking, Visualization and Export
By
ibobev
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
This final installment of a procedural island generation series covers the completion of the CartoKit tool, which bakes terrain into a compact mesh, provides visualization through an egui viewer, and exports artifacts for use in other tools. The article concludes the journey from mathematical representation to visual output with three main components.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledCartoKit finishes by baking the terrain into a compact mesh, visualising it through an egui viewer, and exporting artefacts for other tools.
The journey from mathematical representation to visual output ends with three components.
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