Why is everyone focusing on just the buildings? I thought the ship looked real nice too - IIRC the first time we’ve seen (procedural?) dirt/wear (or at least the first time we’ve been able to see it well).
Yes that final image of the ship with rust and dirt looks really good. We have seen dirt layers before (2008ish?), but I guess this is a complelty new algorithm.
AFAICR, the way cities are going to be handled is through a procedural approach. Artists will be designing modules of the buildings, not the buildings themselves, and the engine will patch the modules together (intelligently, of course).
Thanks for pointing that out! Yes, that is very cool. Well done, devs!
We showed some buildings to give a different take on planets from what you have all previously seen. However, Battlescape will be, whatever our scoping and eventual funding will allow it to be. We have a small team, it will be scoped appropriately and likely will not include huge procedurally generated/placed cities. I:B is not intended to be a primer for all things procedural desired in a future MMO, at least not initially.
Also, the Hellion is not showcasing procedural dirt/wear, that is artist generated atm.
I’d imagine that a city like that could be a mining outpost that would be something to be captured/defended.
Probably scouring seabeds for platinum or something.
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Incredible!!! I had no idea you had made this much progress. Looking seriously excellent.
Awesome, great to see progress is coming on well!
It really looks beautiful.
This is awesome! I love the screenshots! 
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Now that was a nice Christmas present! 
Those screenshots look great!
The hype-meter is increasing again - really looking forward to the next year of Infinity!
Infinity is wonderful in that sense, you can always look forward to the next year 
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Kan’t wait for Kickstarter!
A ship on a platform in a bay being refueled by people! I had no exception! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xXao8gRm_OY/VJuvTQ4PN7I/AAAAAAAAAPY/Ex3mP3mhdAw/s1600/Platform_concept_1.png
Wait a minute… If that’s concept art then why is there aliasing on the top of the ship.
It’s an overpaint of an in-engine image as far as I can tell. So they took a screenshot, and painted in the things missing 