I-Novae: Engine Screenshot Thread!

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I will not be out-liked. Challenge accepted.

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How is your “like every post in the forums” project doing Ark?

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Hmmm… Liking every post in the forms…

YES! MY CALLING IS CLEAR!!!

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Once you have liked all the posts made so far it will be easy to keep up with new posts (until the KS crowd comes).

I have already reached my daily limit of likes. :frowning:
Now I remember why my project to like everything stalled. I can only give out ~ 50 likes a day.
I’ll start make a personal request.

The volcano world looks quite awesome (as already mentioned), I am also curious how ground level on night side would look like, how much the lava illuminates the surroundings…

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Does the terrain engine generate spoons?

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drops to knees and shakes fists wildly
DAMN YOU NEO!!

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That’s crazy.

I’d stay away from unique objects planetside, though. As one day *some* players may demand or find some …exotic formations.

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If I recall correctly, the terrain generating algorithm outputs a single height value for every spot on the surface of a planet, which would mean it doesn’t support overhangs. Since my idea of a spoon has overhangs regardless of how you turn it, that would indicate Infinity will not have spoon-like terrain generated by the terrain engine, unless said engine is expanded to add 3D models to the generated terrain or switched to a voxel based system.

The exotic formations @Arkenbrien mentions should be no problem, though. They are recognizable even without overhangs.

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IIRC, INE doesn’t model overhangs as the generation is not 3D based but height based, a surface coordinate point will only have one height value, so no chance of generating mind bending spoons…

/edit
God damn you and your ninja Runiat!

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Flavien has experimented with horizontal displacement maps in the past. That was eight years ago however and I don’t know if the current generation engine still supports them.

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Thanks guys… I knew the engine doesn’t support overhangs. It was a rhetorical question. :smiley:

My belief is based on something a bit more “recent” in terms of this project, a post by Keith IIRC, just don’t ask me to find it, could be the good old forums post…

Thanks for the link though.

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If it was voxel based, exploding planets would be possible. Just imagine actually being on a planet to see it happen.

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If it was voxel based then it would look like NMS or Planetary Annihilation. Someday perhaps.

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Suggestion: Any ship “landing” on lava would slowly sink into the ground with lots of fire and explosion particles. The ship would be lost, of course.

Last I checked, the density of lava was quite a bit higher than that of spaceships, meaning they would float, and the temperature a lot cooler than the Sun’s corona, meaning the heat would cause less issues than harvesting fuel from stars.

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