Landscape is a unique 3D-object. It doesn’t have size or ends. It is very important for the game to load only viewable portion of the ground. Landscape is also not static - it can be changed during the game. So we began with landscape editor (it is a base for world 3D-editor).

First version:

Keys:

• Mouse — rotates camera. With Shift — third axis rotation.
• Wheel — zoom.
• T/B/L/R — change view
• F4 — aditmesh mode
  • You can move points and the are auto-welding (this may have some bugs).
  • Drag/click+Ctrl — divide:
    • On a polygon — divide polygon.
    • On the edge — divide edge.
  • Drag+Alt — creates new polygon from existing.
  • S — snap (not good yet).

Then we added lighting.

And tryed to paint on a texture.

Additional keys:

• F3 — paint mode

Then we animated textures and made some lighting experiments.

Then we decided to imitate GI-lighting with “Dirt-like” method: the “deeper” the point, the darker is texture.

And finally came with a great soft lighting idea, painting in a texture.
We got greater speed, and no sharp lighting edges.

Because of new MIP-mapping in new alpha flash player this one may look wrong.

Now we have soft lights in real-time!

Additional keys:

• Z — add texture things
• C — add spotlight

Then we add texture quality settings.

Additional keys:

• Shift+wheel — change light quality
• Ctrl+wheel — change tex quality

Yeah, we know that in some browsers it activates page transitions and so on :)

Then we got all the lighing together.

Q — change flash player quality setting

And FINALLY we did polygonal texture objects.

• X — change edge style

So.
Making the ladscape leaded us to some brand-new 3D Flash-visualisation. We will re-think it again soon :)