Hillside

The hill as a place. One instance on mount_world; it dresses the moor the moment the scene loads.

It generates four meshes off game.world.terrain and a seeded generator, so the hill is the same hill on every machine and in every session:

• the cairn on the summit — the landmark the camera returns to and the thing the sun crests over,
• the scatter — boulders, scree, three leaning monoliths, gorse and heather, merged into ONE mesh whose vertex colours carry each object's own colour, so a hundred things cost one draw call and one material,
• the tarn lying in the deepest hollow, and
• the mist banks in the hollows, which is where first light shows first.

Nothing stands on the worn track the turf paints: the same game.world.terrain.PATH decides where the track runs and where the generator refuses to place anything.

The hill's own sound is here too — the wind over the summit and the hollower air off the tarn, both spatial sources playing game.world.audio.wind.

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