CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One: Introduction to Terrain Programming -- CHAPTER 1 THE JOURNEY INTO THE GREAT OUTDOORS -- "Terrain? No Thanks, I Already Ate." -- Demo Building Made Easy! -- The Book at an Itty-Bitty Glance -- Summary -- CHAPTER 2 TERRAIN 101 -- Heightmaps -- The Creation of a Base Terrain Class -- Loading and Unloading a Heightmap -- The Brute Force of the Matter -- Fractal Terrain Generation -- Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 3 TEXTURING TERRAIN -- Simple Texture Mapping -- Procedural Texture Generation -- Using Detail Maps -- Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 4 LIGHTING TERRAIN -- Height-Based Lighting -- Hardware Lighting -- Lightmapping -- Slope Lighting -- Summary -- References -- Part Two: Advanced Terrain Programming -- CHAPTER 5 GEOMIP-MAPPING FOR THE CLOD IMPAIRED -- CLOD Terrain 101 -- Geomipmapping Theory for the Semi-CLOD Impaired -- Implementing Geomipmapping for the Very Slightly CLOD Impaired -- Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 6 CLIMBING THE QUADTREE -- Quads Do Grow on Trees -- Think Outside of the Quad! -- Hug the Quadtree, Love the Quadtree, Be the Quadtree -- Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 7 WHEREVER YOU MAY ROAM -- The ROAM Algorithm -- Improvements to the ROAM Algorithm -- ROAM 2.0 -- Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 8 WRAPPING IT UP: SPECIAL EFFECTS AND MORE -- It's All in the Water -- Primitive-Based Environments 101 -- Camera-Terrain Collision Detection and Simple Response -- Lost in the Fog -- Particle Engines and Their Outdoor Applications -- Summary -- Epilogue -- References -- APPENDIX: WHAT'S ON THE CD -- The GUI -- System Requirements -- Installation -- The Structure -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U-V -- W -- X-Z.