SimCity 4 terrain
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Does anyone know how they did the terrain in SimCity 4? I''m fairly certain the game was made in 2D, and yet the terrain has smooth slopes, believable coastlines, etc.
3d Terrain.
Simcity 4 has one of the most complicated rendering engines I''ve ever seen. They say that if everything was redrawn every frame, it would run at < 1 FPS on a Geforce 4, 2GHz machine.
Simcity 4 has one of the most complicated rendering engines I''ve ever seen. They say that if everything was redrawn every frame, it would run at < 1 FPS on a Geforce 4, 2GHz machine.
Just from looking at the game, and with my limited experience, I think they used a 3d landscape engine and used pre rendered tiles, for objects that are static like a house and power lines. If you notice if you zoom in and your computer is kinda slow the tiles are all blocks so the scene needs to be scaled. Would this effect happen if they where using 3d mods for everything?
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I just did a little more research- the entire game was actually done in 3D. I thought it was 2D becuase of the way the shadows fell on some surfaces but not others, even though they should have. Must just have been not-perfect shadow-creation code. Oh well, great game anyway.
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