Unity 2019: Diamond Square Procedural terrain

Based in: Unity Tutorials: Diamond-Square Procedural Terrain tutorial

Renders a procedural terrain using Diamond Square common and famous algorithm

Project scripts

The project contains the scripts below on Assets/Scripts folder:

• MeshGenerator: This is only to understand the theory about creating mesh with triangles and vertices.

  PS: Attach this script to a any empty gameObject and see the result :)

• DiamondSquareTerrain: Generate a diamond square terrain, with Diamond and Square steps

Getting Started

1. Download Unity 2019+ and open this project

2. Open the scene Assets/Scenes/SampleScene.unity

3. Click on Play button on Unity editor

4. Change the parameters Divisions, Size and Height and click on Update button. The terrain will be generated again

References

Posts

• [WIKIPEDIA]: Diamond Square Algorithm
• [MEDIUM]: Diamond-Square Algorithm Explanation and C++ Implementation
• Perlin Noise vs Diamond Square
• [DEMO]: Terrain generation with the diamond square algorithm

Videos

• Unity Tutorials: Diamond-Square Procedural Terrain