Terrain rendering in frostbite using procedural shader splatting

Abstract

For the detail mapping there are multiple methods that can be used. In Battlefield 2, a 256 m patch of the terrain could have up to six different tiling detail maps that were blended together using one or two three-component unique detail mask textures (Figure 4) that controlled the visibility of the individual detail maps. Artists would paint or generate the detail masks just as for the color map.