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Asteroids by Rob Farley
(Posted 22 years ago)
Basically this creates a blitz sphere and munches the verts around a bit to make it more random.

The 'clever' bit is it checks all the verts that are joined together first so you don't get cracks and stuff.

But it's nice as a no-media solution.

You can infact throw any mesh at this and it will randomise it...
; Rob Farley 2004
; rob@mentalillusion.co.uk

Graphics3D 640,480

; create asteroid sphere
asteroid=CreateSphere(8)
;EntityTexture asteroid(ast),astex

; monkey with the verts
as1=GetSurface(asteroid,1)

; record the locations of the verts
Dim vpos#(CountVertices(as1)-1,3)
For n=0 To CountVertices(as1)-1
	vpos(n,0)=VertexX(as1,n)
	vpos(n,1)=VertexY(as1,n)
	vpos(n,2)=VertexZ(as1,n)
	vpos(n,3)=0
Next

For n=0 To CountVertices(as1)-1

; change these to make it more or less messy
xm#=Rnd(-.1,.1)
ym#=Rnd(-.1,.1)
zm#=Rnd(-.1,.1)

	For nn=0 To CountVertices(as1)-1
	
	; if the vert has not been monkeyed with monkey away
	If vpos(nn,3)=0
		If vpos(n,0)=vpos(nn,0) And vpos(n,1)=vpos(nn,1) And vpos(n,2)=vpos(nn,2)
			VertexCoords as1,nn,vpos(nn,0)+xm,vpos(nn,1)+ym,vpos(nn,2)+zm
			vpos(nn,3)=1
			EndIf
		EndIf
		
	Next
Next


; draw it
camera = CreateCamera():PositionEntity camera,0,0,-5
light = CreateLight(2):PositionEntity light,1000,1000,-500

Repeat
	TurnEntity asteroid,0,1,2
	RenderWorld
	Flip
Until KeyHit(1)