Shamelessly copy and pasted from the Frontier forums
- 4:00 - Updates in the immediate future, Arena Commander update, Star Marine and FPS system refactoring.
- 6:50 - Alpha 3.0 initial discussion, including brief detailing of professions, gameplay, and locations/worlds.
- 8:40 - Procedural Planets V2 info, discussion on artist authoring, world-building techniques, and planetary biomes.
- 10:00 - Biome details (specifically), height maps, and distribution maps.
- 11:55 - Weather systems in Procedural Generation V2.
- 14:20 - Artist hands-on with every single plan, artist production pipeline and time required to make planets.
- 15:10 - Scheduling challenges and planet-building that meets stretch goals.
- 16:50 - Biome rulesets, edge blending, avoiding carbon copy planet generation.
- 21:20 - What will be shown at CitizenCon?
And an article if one prefers reading (not a transcript)
http://www.gamersnexus.net/gg/2613-c...ha3-citizencon
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Planet generation and talk about not looking copy/pasted from one planet to the next.Well SIMPLE is the term because with auto generation and simple height mapping it takes a very little time to generate the map then likely 2-3 days for some artist/mapper to go in and hand sculpt different areas with tools that are already coded into the game.
Bottom line is that most of the work is simply the team that makes the assets/textures the rest is SIMPLE work that an everyday professional would plot down to make it look good/realistic.
I find the main problem with this game is always the same,the "work done" completed,it always seems like he has little to show ,little finished work,it is always "we have this coming"speech or we are working on it.
I should always link to or remind people of the time it took 1 guy to "sculpt" 1 month in the EpicCitadel app,it makes SC's team look real bad,real slow.
When all is said and done,it might turn out looking good,who knows maybe even awesome,but to me the ride it took to get there has been very slow,unprofessional like and costing way too much money.I am more than sure it will all end up looking like a team of maybe 10 people built the game with a budget of 5 million,not 100+ million and that is based on what i know a team pf professionals can do.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I think alpha 3.0 sounds great, how much they manage to get out the door, how bug-free it is and how well it plays remains to be seen but hopefully it is the start of better things. I do hope they manage to get it out this year as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/10/science/An-Image-of-Earth-Every-Ten-Minutes.html?_r=5
Last year it was a possibility, today it seems we'll possibly see in 2 weeks what they managed to achieve on this area.
You should consider that the tech and the creation of the tools that the artists will work with, is what will speed up all the pipelines. They seem to have some tools but they are working on much else when it comes to PG, is by iterations.
I think this applies to any development team, the first time you do something will be the one you take the most time on, after that the pipelines start going smoothly.
"....For the CitizenCon demo, though, a special planet has been created for a “Homestead demo.” This planet is more Earth-like in its biome distribution, containing forests, oceans, mountains, and deserts; the Homestead demo won't see inclusion in 3.0 and is purpose-built for the CitizenCon unveil of Planets V2. Roberts elaborated:
“Sean [Tracy] is working hard on it with a bunch of talented people, so that's [how] we're showing off the potential of V2 planets and some of the cool stuff and play action that can happen in 3.0. We're […] taking one of the missions that's in Squadron 42 and showing how that would feel, from the briefing, to the ship, to taking off, to the mission, and the combination of flying and FPS stuff, so those are the two things we're going to show. We're going to show full-focus this is what V2 planets can do for you, then this is what Squadron 42 is going to feel like and play like, and this is the experience of a mission in SQ42...."
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An actual proper mission playthrough demo of SQ42 works for that end. Some people and their "sources" have been saying all they had was a trailer for it, but seems there's actual gameplay to show.
Sean Tracy's one is this Friday.
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This video is a good example of how demos can be made. Not saying dual universe actually did this but it's interesting to see what devs can do to make a demo appear real. This is also a running feud between this YouTuber and the devs.
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"Squadron 42's momentous campaign unveil leveraged Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, and other Hollywood actors to demonstrate initial character technology. At the time, the team thought the characters looked good, Roberts told us in our recent interview. The truth of the matter is that a lot of temporary cheats and bandaids were put in place to get that demo working, and that the character team has significantly improved upon what was initially shown last year (see: Senate Speech). "
It wonder how well SC and Cryengine will be able to utilize it.
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The technology may have been around for some time, but is there any game around that ever did this on a planetary scale? (I actually don't know)
These simulations can also be run on a network of computers. I have a 3 rig setup so far, one for the flight simulation software http://www.prepar3d.com/ , one for the aircraft systems http://www.flightdecksolutions.com/sim-avionics and one for weather generation, air traffic control and a plethora of other addons.
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For example looking at the planet from space and time lapsing it seeing something similar that what I posted on that first link, I wonder how expensive it is as the planet itself is static it only rotates but the weather is the opposite.