Purple World

Tyler Pearson

Welcome to Purple World!

Purple World is a unique world where anything is possible, immerse yourself in all its glory!

Purple World is the less-publicized sister region to Neverland, as seen in the classic documentary titled "Peter Pan". Whereas in Neverland individuals do not age, inhabitants and visitors alike of Purple World age way faster!

Overview

Purple World is a procedurally generated, flat-shaded terrain. A new map is rendered every build using a Perlin noise generation algorithm. The water is a simple triangle mesh with random initial height offsets, each vertex is shifted up and down to simulate a water-like motion. There are 3 viewing modes and 5 directional lighting options, one of which rotates around the map. The sun always shines on Purple World, as does its moon which rests in the northeastern sky.

Directions to Purple World

An executable (named "projf") is provided in the build directory. This should be executed from the build directory, as the path to the resource directory is hard-coded. This also assumes the necessary libraries are pre-installed on your machine
To build from scratch on linux, create your build directory in the main directory, cd into it, run "cmake ..", followed by "make -j4", and your projf executable will be created
For running on mac or windows, or from Visual Studio, refer to the file "build-instructions.md"
Note: a bug occurs occasionally where distorted columns of color appear. This is a bug, although it is unclear if this is due to a coding error or due to my hardware's gpu deficiency