areas(continents) on my spherical planet

[ariusdb222]

Hey everyone, after messing around in unity for a while, i’v decided to start a real project…

For my new project i’m using a cube that is mapped to a sphere.

So far it’s been ok, but now i’m stuck on getting ‘areas’ on the sphere…
How can i make a certain area of a specific size on a spherical surface?
What i want to do once i can use areas on the sphere/cube, is make some sort of script that chooses what type of biome the area will be and on that area it will use noise to make a landscape relevant to the biome type.

But for now, i really would love to know, how do all of you calculate/define ‘areas’…
that’s been my problem with quite a few things when i was still messing around in unity, and now…again.

Any help is very appreciated, thanks…

[AlwaysSunny]

The Mesh class offers access to verticies. If your model origin is the sphere origin, you can iterate over your verts, collecting verts whose magnitude is greater-than N. Turning this into meaningful (useful) data about topology is not a trivial affair. Guess you could iterate over these collected “above sea level” points with an algorithm that builds “continent” objects from adjacent above-sea-level verts?

You can expect to become intimately familiar with this class if you want to analyze or affect meshes through scripting.