Procedural Generation
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I was watching the spore google vid a while back, and he kept mentioning something called "Procedural Generation". What exactly is it? I mean, I'm guessing the code creats stuff as the game progresses but thats not exactly a detailed deduction...
It's pretty much what it sounds like. Instead of, say, loading a texture from a file, or storing in advance the locations of all the trees in your forest, this information is generated by the relevant modules of your engine in real-time.
Yeah - but in spore we're not talking pretty textures or trees - we're talking about the animations of the units themselves being procedurally generated depending on what the creature YOU create looks like.
Freaking awesome.
Freaking awesome.
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So does it not call any reference to movement info until the very instant its being used?
Quote:Original post by AfroFireSo was B&W's AI supposed to be and it turned out to be crap. I'd hope at least people in game development boards wouldn't be so quick to believe in hype.
Yeah - but in spore we're not talking pretty textures or trees - we're talking about the animations of the units themselves being procedurally generated depending on what the creature YOU create looks like.
Freaking awesome.
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