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Published inOct 2016
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Dr. Edward Lavieri
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Dr. Edward Lavieri is a veteran software engineer and developer with a strong academic background. He earned a Doctorate of Computer Science from Colorado Technical University, an MS in Management Information Systems (Bowie State University), an MS in Education (Capella University), and an MS in Operations Management (University of Arkansas). He has been creating and teaching computer science courses since 2002. Edward retired from the U.S. Navy as a Command Master Chief after 25 years of active service. He is the founder and creative director of three19, a software design and development studio. Edward has authored more than a dozen technology books, including several on Java.
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Configuring the game world


Now that our terrain textures are set, we can begin to make our game world look more appealing. We'll accomplish this by adding colored textures to our terrain, adding vegetation throughout the world, sculpting segments of the terrain to create hills and mountains, and adding a water feature.

Lumberyard offers a lot of flexibility in creating game worlds. We can create our own blank heightmap as we did in the previous section, import a heightmap, apply textures, and use virtual brushes to paint our world.

Adding color

In this section, we will look at two ways to add color to our world. First, we will paint colors onto our terrain with virtual brushes. Then, we will add vegetation to add additional realism and color.

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You can and should experiment with the functionality described in this section until you feel confident with it. The completed level file will be available to download on the book's website.

Painting our terrain

The steps required to paint textures onto...

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Dr. Edward Lavieri

Dr. Edward Lavieri is a veteran software engineer and developer with a strong academic background. He earned a Doctorate of Computer Science from Colorado Technical University, an MS in Management Information Systems (Bowie State University), an MS in Education (Capella University), and an MS in Operations Management (University of Arkansas). He has been creating and teaching computer science courses since 2002. Edward retired from the U.S. Navy as a Command Master Chief after 25 years of active service. He is the founder and creative director of three19, a software design and development studio. Edward has authored more than a dozen technology books, including several on Java.
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