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Create sphere from height map?


Tim_Rosskamp
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Hey,

In my project I need to create a sphere with a height map, but I only found the function "CreateGroundFromHeightMap" in the babylonjs docs. It seems like there is not a function for spheres.

Can anybody help me with that? Basicly I need the function "CreateSphereFromHeightMap".

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@NasimiAsl

Well, I looked at the source code from CreateGroundFromHeightMap and I thought maybe its possible to take the same approach as this function and write a new function that does the same thing for a sphere.

 

But currently this is my code:

import BABYLONX from './plugins/GeometryBuilder.SGB.js';

BABYLONX.GeometryBuilder.InitializeEngine();
BABYLONX.ShaderBuilder.InitializeEngine();

export function createEarthMesh(heightMap) {
    var img = document.createElement('img');
    var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    var GB = BABYLONX.GeometryBuilder;

    var CreatePlanet = function(op, GB) {
        var builder = function(s /*{seg:number}*/ , geo){
            var seg = s.seg;
            var hseg = seg;

            var hmap = function(p){
                p = norm(p);
                // read pixel from canvas
                var ns = 53.*canvas.getContext('2d').getImageData( (p.u*200),   ( ((1.-(p.v+0.5))*200)), 1, 1).data[1]/255;

                p.x *=300+ ns;
                p.y *=300+ ns;
                p.z *=300+ ns;
                return p;
            }
            var norm = function(v){
                var x = v.x, y = v.y, z = v.z;
                var n = Math.sqrt(x * x + y * y + z * z);

                if (n == 0) return { x: 0.1, y: 0.1, z: 0.1 };

                var invN = 1 / n;
                v.x *= invN;
                v.y *= invN;
                v.z *= invN;

                return v;
            }
            var def = function(a, d){
                if (a != undefined && a != null) return (d != undefined && d != null ? a : true);
                else
                    if (d != _null)
                        return (d != undefined && d != null ? d : false);
                return null;
            }

            // calculate sphere
            var f = function(i, j, y){
                y = def(y, 0.);
                var a = i * 360. / seg;
                var v = {
                    x: Math.sin((Math.PI / 180.) * a) * 3.,
                    y: j * 2. / seg,
                    z: Math.cos((Math.PI / 180.) * a) * 3.
                };
                var p = {
                    x: v.x * Math.sin(v.y * Math.PI / 2. - Math.PI / 2.),
                    y: Math.sin(v.y * Math.PI / 2.) * 3 + y,
                    z: v.z * Math.sin(v.y * Math.PI / 2. + Math.PI / 2.)
                };
                return p;
            };


            // make sphere points
            for (var i = 0; i < seg + 1; i++) {
                for (var j = -hseg / 2.; j < hseg / 2.; j++) {
                    var p = {
                        x: 0,
                        y: 0,
                        z: 0,
                        u: i / seg,
                        v: j / seg
                    };
                    if (j <= -hseg / 2. + 1.) {
                        p = {
                            x: 0.,
                            y: -3.,
                            z: 0.,
                            u: i / seg,
                            v: j / seg
                        };
                        p = hmap(p);
                    } else if (j >= hseg / 2. - 1.) {
                        p = {
                            x: 0.,
                            y: 3.,
                            z: 0.,
                            u: i / seg,
                            v: j / seg
                        };
                        p = hmap(p);
                    } else {
                        p = f(i * 1.0, j * 1., 0.);
                        p.u = i / seg;
                        p.v = j / seg;
                        p = hmap(p);
                    }

                    // make vertex and uv

                    GB.PushVertex(geo, p);
                    geo.uvs.push(i / seg, (j / seg + 0.5));
                }
            }

            // make face
            for (var j = 1.; j < hseg - 1; j++) {
                for (var i = 1; i < seg + 1; i++) {
                    GB.MakeFace(geo, [(i - 1) * hseg + j, (i - 1) * hseg + j + 1, (i) * hseg + j, (i) * hseg + j + 1], {
                        flip: 0,
                        faceUVMap: "0123"
                    });
                }
            }
        };

        return new BABYLONX.Geometry(GB.GeometryBase(op, builder, op.custom));
    }
    img.onload = function(){
        canvas.width = img.width;
        canvas.height = img.height;
        canvas.getContext('2d').drawImage(img, 0, 0, img.width, img.height);

        var mesh = CreatePlanet({
            seg:200.
	    },GB).toMesh(window.Scene);

        console.log(mesh);
    }
    img.src = heightMap;
}

and this is the error I get:

Uncaught ReferenceError: i is not defined
    at Function.BABYLONX.GeometryBuilder.BuildBabylonMesh (eval at GeometryBuilder.InitializeEngine

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look line 35

ns = 40.8*cn.getContext('2d').getImageData(
(p.u*200),
( ((1.-(p.v+0.5))*200)), 1, 1).data[1]/255;
 
change 40.8 
and for minimum radius
 
p.x *=300 +ns;
p.y *=300+ ns;
p.z *=300 +ns;
 
change 300 

for add more  segment look line 56  

var mesh = CreatePlanet({
seg:256.
         },GB).toMesh(scene);
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Great, I fiddled around a bit. Could you please shortly explain what is going on in your code?

So far I think I understood, that you create a 200px x 200px image and scan it pixel by pixel to create a uv map for the height. If I change the image size it will not work anymore.

What exactly is going on there? :)

 

If I try to get the mesh via 

    console.log(scene.getMeshByUniqueID(2));

I only get back NULL.

So there is no chance to export it as OBJ-File.

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