Data Driven Game
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Hey Everyone,
I was wondering if there are other ways of creating a completely data driven game without using tile-based worlds.
I have seen a lot of engines using heightmaps for terrain, is there a way to do this in a completely data driven manner?
Thanks for your comments!
What do you mean? It's perfectly possible to have a level based only on polygonal data, if that's what you mean.
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I know that it is possible to create a data driven map using polygons. I guess what I mean is how reasonable is something like that to manage.
What I would really like is to:
1. Dynamically create maps
2. Handle physics and collision detection
in a completely data driven engine. Then be able to slap on new graphics systems as the engine becomes older.
What I would really like is to:
1. Dynamically create maps
2. Handle physics and collision detection
in a completely data driven engine. Then be able to slap on new graphics systems as the engine becomes older.
For creating maps, look up "procedural content generation".
Its quite reasonable to use polygonal-based maps because even when you use a heightmaps to generate terrain, it ends up making a representation of the heightmap through the use of polygons.
Its quite reasonable to use polygonal-based maps because even when you use a heightmaps to generate terrain, it ends up making a representation of the heightmap through the use of polygons.
He said:
He said he wanted to CREATE maps so maybe I should have written this instead....
But if he just wants to use existing data for a map then he wouldn't be creating a map, he would be using the existing data to draw a virtual version of terrain.
Quote:1. Dynamically create maps
He said he wanted to CREATE maps so maybe I should have written this instead....
Quote:For creating maps, look up "procedural content generation"
But if he just wants to use existing data for a map then he wouldn't be creating a map, he would be using the existing data to draw a virtual version of terrain.
Yes. Rendering data (maps, etc...) are the EASIEST thing to make "data-driven" in a game. Quake 1 stored levels in files. I guess I'm missing the intent of the question. When I think about a data-driven game engine, I think of something where things like AI, scripting, types of entities and their relationships don't depend on code. Unless you've got textures and models stored in your source code ... how is your render data not data-driven?
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