Dynamic Height map for landscape?

[raycornea]

Any tips or guiding points on how such could be done...
For i'd want to achive something similar to the sand displacement,based on character's movement in the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vRGJ...eature=related

Maybe anyone knows a better way to replicate such an effect?

[redbox]

looks like simple particle effects and decals with good nomralmapping.
anyway, in Unreal you can achieve this effect only by this method.

[raycornea]

My method won't work then?
For i wanted to do some snowprints aswell

[redbox]

no. there is no way to create dynamic heightmap without some hardcoding.

[ambershee]

Plus the heightmap would not have enough resolution to give the effect you're after anyway. I would do this with a clever pixel shader.

[raycornea]

redbox, thnx,i'm quite a newbie in uscripting so i'll leave the idea floating on the net

ambershee ,could you point out some more about your way(still haven't gotten to research any on pixel shaders)...or some nice threads/sites/... to get me going

[joshua.fontany]

Oooh, that is a nice effect.... I wonder how I would do that.... Part of it would probably be the "player location based environment material" posted here in one of the forums (green room, red around the player)...


I'll have to think on that (it's also definitely capturing vector of travel, possibly speed), and it's in the same layer as the wind (& other) effects on the ground-shader. Well done.