Randomly Generated 3D Environments for Serious Games

Author

Noghani, Jeremy ; Liarokapis, Fotis ; Anderson, Eike Falk

Author_Institution

Res. Group, Coventry Univ., Coventry, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

25-26 March 2010

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

10

Abstract

This paper describes a variety of methods that can be used to create realistic, random 3D environments for serious games requiring real-time performance. These include the generation of terrain, vegetation and building structures. An interactive flight simulator has been created as proof of concept. An initial evaluation with two small samples of users (remote and hallway) revealed some usability issues but also showed that overall the flight simulator is enjoyable and appears realistic and believable.

Keywords

aerospace computing; computer games; digital simulation; solid modelling; 3D terrain modeling; building structure generation; computer graphics; interactive flight simulator; randomly generated 3D environments; serious games; terrain generation; vegetation generation; Aerospace simulation; Buildings; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Computer industry; Computer simulation; Games; Toy industry; Vegetation mapping; Virtual environment; 3D terrain modeling; computer graphics; flight simulator; serious games;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES), 2010 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Braga

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6331-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6332-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VS-GAMES.2010.31

Filename

5460261