WebGL - Textured terrain with heightmap

Question

I\'m trying to create a 3D terrain using WebGL. I have a jpg with the texture for the terrain, and another jpg with the height values (-1 to 1).

I\'ve looked at vari

Answer 1

Depending on your GLSL skills, you can write a GLSL vertex shader, assign the texture to one of your texture channels, and read the value in the vertex shader (I believe you need a modern card to read textures in a vertex shader but that may just be me showing my age :P )

In the vertex shader, translate the z value of the vertex based on the value read from the texture.