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New Trailer Introduces Procedurally Generated Planet Systems
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New Trailer Introduces Procedurally Generated Planet Systems
Roberts Space Industry has sent out a brand new holiday gift for fans in the form of a Star Citizen trailer showing procedurally generated planet systems. It's a gorgeous video shot 100% in-engine with some pretty cool explanations of what is being shown. Check it out and leave us your thoughts in the comments.
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Frontier has already done it.
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I cannot walk around on that planet with my avatar. And will not be able to do that for a long time. MACO style rover work only.
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Horizons looks fun, though. but not this pretty, imho
and Infinity: Battlscape did it before anyone :P
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SEANMCAD said:
ummm...
Frontier has already done it.
Same concept, no where near as impressive. That's like saying "Star Citizen isn't doing anything new. I used to blow up spaceships playing Defender at the arcade in the 80's!"
This is both true, and not true. Elite Dangerous has part of this (not atmospheres), that doesn't look as good (objectively speaking, that's just true). However E:D has it live, with billions upon billion of planets, rather than a single small demo of a single planet of a single type.
So although this video is beautiful and very impressive, and without a doubt better looking than Horizons, it's not complete and might work only in this very limited demo. We don't know.
I.e until it's shipped and available, Elite is doing a better job because it's actually out and functional.
NomadMorlock said:
SEANMCAD said:
ummm...
Frontier has already done it.
Same concept, no where near as impressive. That's like saying "Star Citizen isn't doing anything new. I used to blow up spaceships playing Defender at the arcade in the 80's!"
This is both true, and not true. Elite Dangerous has part of this (not atmospheres), that doesn't look as good (objectively speaking, that's just true). However E:D has it live, with billions upon billion of planets, rather than a single small demo of a single planet of a single type.
So although this video is beautiful and very impressive, and without a doubt better looking than Horizons, it's not complete and might work only in this very limited demo. We don't know.
I.e until it's shipped and available, Elite is doing a better job because it's actually out and functional.
It's procedural generation. It's no different building 1 planet than building 1 million. Once the tech is working the hard part is done.
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I remember a lot of criticism about E:D because it was done like that and that SC would be much better because they were hand-crafting the content.
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SEANMCAD said:
ummm...
Frontier has already done it.
Same concept, no where near as impressive. That's like saying "Star Citizen isn't doing anything new. I used to blow up spaceships playing Defender at the arcade in the 80's!"
But to be totally honest, Defender also had seamless space to ground transitions, right?
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals
41 Million Stretch Goal:
"Procedural Generation R&D Team – This stretch goal will allocate funding for Cloud Imperium to develop procedural generation technology for future iterations of Star Citizen. Advanced procedural generation will be necessary for creating entire planets worth of exploration and development content. A special strike team of procedural generation-oriented developers will be assembled to make this technology a reality."
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You are aware that computer science has had procedural generation for decades right? It has always been is it good enough for the task at hand. For mmoRPGs good enough is very subjective but early attempts were not good enough. It is just a matter of time before it will be main stream.
People have been chasing PG for a very long time. I don't know if breakthrough it the right word for it as I feel it discounts all the previous work that came before it.
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Something they have been working on for a year+, and just put it into a very poorly modeled, low graphics quality PG world. Just look at the difference between the rest of the world and that one area, look at how fuzzy and low quality everything is, the bam you get to the station.
Its not even in game, just in engine, something CIG have shown before and have not been able to deliver. This is from the same people that spent 20 min of the live stream failing to get their own game to run.
Go to 1.03, of the new PG video, you can clearly seem the seam between the handcrafted mining base(station), and the rest of the world.
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Yea great if the game comes out. This only proves they are working on it. It's not in the game right now. You can barely do anything right now actually. ED has planetary landing already and I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of next year SC still isn't out and ED has avatar exploring planets.
>>> You can barely do anything right now actually. >>>
I would disagree with that:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/feature-list
(thats a list of around 50 different things you can do.. RIGHT NOW... or watch others do it on Youtube ... 2000 new fan made videos this week alone, not to mention the live twitch streamers)
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