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Skyrim version Overview map in a voxel/cube world?

Sean Forbes · 2012-09-28T05:33:06

I am curious as to what procedures people would take if they were to attempt this. I have always liked the concept of the Skyrim map but I am not sure if that is possible/stable for us to do this with a voxel world. The idea would be the following: - 85 degree angle view - Zoomed 75+ blocks from the base land level ( so around the 180 - 250 range ) - only top blocks would be rendered ( unless the cave is visible to the top world ) - key locations and possibly players will be visible via a marker of some type ( special icons for each ) - The map would be dynamic with lighting and environment effects such as clouds. The idea would be to simply lock the players movement, do a far pan zoom, increase the view rendering, reduce what is rendered, and just manage side scrolling and loading of information as that is being done. My question(s): Does this sound like it would be a nice system Do you think it is reasonable for a voxel based game How would we go about doing it? create a simple mesh of the land and load it up for them to view or simply do a live cam with increased rendering range? Any other comments or suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance. Just wanted to run this idea by you guys to see what your thoughts were.

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Started by riuthamus September 25, 2012 05:03 PM

9 comments, last by odrega 11 years, 6 months ago

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September 28, 2012 05:33 AM

I'm not sure if its possible, but couldn't you render the whole map to a texture when you open the map menu. You wouldn't see real time block changes, but there's probably a way around that.

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