My first ever post

Ohh well i finally decided to create a blog. This is mainly because i keep pissing people off on the forums by showing off almost every aspect of my games programming. I am starting with my current project which is a spherical terrain, using 6 height maps of a cube, which are quite cleverly warped on to a sphere. Here is a few screenshots from the early development stages; i will explain a bit better later on.
The cube version before it has been warped




Here it is after the clever warping using a simple function which was so gregariously given to me by the lovely Jasmine over at GPwiki forums.

1:    Public Function CubeToSphereMapping(ByVal inputvector As Vector3) As Vector3
2:      Dim L As Single
3:      Dim x, y, z As Single
4:      With inputvector
5:        x = .X - 0.5
6:        y = .Y - 0.5
7:        z = .Z - 0.5
8:      End With
9:      Dim res As Vector3
10:      L = Radius / (x * x + y * y + z * z) ^ 0.5
11:      res.X = x * L
12:      res.Y = y * L
13:      res.Z = z * L
14:      Return res
15:    End Function  

Then we get





Early screenshot with some texturing and all 6 sides mapped to the cube.



Here is a wireframe version of the same