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Hi Folks, We have already spoken in this forum about infinite dynamically generated terrains. Nasimi completed a fantastic terrain generator with GeometryBuilder here : and Dal started a great project here (maybe uncompleted) : So, my turn to bring my two cents. Well, it's just an experiment for now. My idea is this one : Imagine you have either a huge set of geographic data (3D coordinates), something too big to display at once or even toobig to build a working mesh with because of the amount of data. Or imagine that you can get infinitely new data, either computed on demand, either downloaded by chunks to depict the new parts of the current terrain in what your camera is currently moving. In both cases, we have too many data to build and display a visible mesh. So my idea is to decouple the rendering from the logical data. The data could be a very big or dynamically renewed array, whatever... it contains always more info than what is displayable. The terrain is then just an updatable mesh, updated from the camera local position and the current related data. So there is a logical map containing the 3D data (computed, downloaded, or simply very big) and a terrain mesh "sliding" over the map data. The mesh could be built by taken in account the LOD necessity, it is to say by having many tiny facets close to the camera location and bigger ones far from the camera. In order to understand, I intentionally computed a random (simplex) map of data that can be displayed here : it's the red wireframed map, it's 1 million vertices. Normally, it could be far more bigger and wouldn't be displayed. The camera would be moving in the center of the green disc. Actually, the green disc is the displayable terrain and it should move with the camera movements instead of moving independently. The camera should also be submerged in it at a lower altitude. I put the camera far higher and didn't attached the green terrain to it for the sake of understanding : http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#1SZASV#1

Can someone tell me, please, why collision does not take place during animation? Here is a game : https://oobarbazanoo.github.io/JumperKisame/.