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I want to make a simple 2d terrain with just a few bumps and height changes:

terrain with le car

I thought about just using random numbers to describe the height of a certain vertex, but I don't see how I can make one mesh from this. I'm looking for a way to find the vertex and indices buffers for the terrain.
How do I do this?

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Create a triangle strip. You could have your random heights at intervals equal to t. So the triangle strip would then consist of you alternating between the height vertices (with y being random and x equal to t * iteration) and vertices that go along the bottom (with y being constant and x also equal to t * iteration).

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Naturaly, the distance between each vertex pair doesn't have to be constant, this is just an example of the implementation.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ I thought about how to do this and this answer makes it pretty simple. This actually helps me out with making random asteroid objects. \$\endgroup\$ Commented May 3, 2012 at 1:23

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