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Interesting, and it leads me to think.
What does it mean to fine tune the water simulation for D&SS?
What is the goal of fine tuning?
Personally, when I look at those pictures, I just can't process that volume of information in them and imagine how to make the simulation work "better".
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Posted By Snipehunter at 02:08 AM - Fri Jun 07 2019
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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Does this imply that water physics will be in the game after all? Or if not, what is the benefit to simulating water flow to this degree? Will we be able to notice the difference somehow?
Just curious.
It'd be nuts if they continued the water simulation in game, but at the same time.... I'd love it. This in particular (if they really do simulate it in game) would mean that city planning would be ultra complicated. Building development and roadways would create impervious surfaces that would destroy the natural flow of water and may cause erosion at some locations either destroying the natural surroundings or making floods in the city/village (hence why you see massive retention ponds near new major developing areas.
Posted By Jouten at 07:25 AM - Fri Jun 07 2019
It'd be nuts if they continued the water simulation in game, but at the same time.... I'd love it. This in particular (if they really do simulate it in game) would mean that city planning would be ultra complicated. Building development and roadways would create impervious surfaces that would destroy the natural flow of water and may cause erosion at some locations either destroying the natural surroundings or making floods in the city/village (hence why you see massive retention ponds near new major developing areas.
If they ran a sim every month or so, that could capture some interesting data, based on the changes us filthy players have done to the world, that would potentially give us an idea what we are doing to the world.
I wouldn't want them running a real-time water simulation but it could very well be something that they should do periodically so they can update some ecological models for the world.
While all this sounds and looks great... At this rate and level of details, do we ever get a game? You have still 100+ professions to make interesting, mass combat, background simulation and million other things among other million things. You really need to learn to draw a line somewhere... If you fine tune water flows for weeks. How long will it take with other things? 20 years?
Like I said before... SBS - you can't revolutionarize all gameplay mechanics. It's just not possible. I hope you succeed, but my hopes have been dying bit by bit after each update during last year or so...
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1) 99.9% of the players aren't going to give af about this stuff. Even if they do, they can't 'see' it because they are too close. Forest from the trees kind of deal.
2) If they give this sim cpu resources during run time instead of other far more important systems, they are on some serious crack.
3) Just about every MMO has tried to include a sim system of one type or another, going all the way back to Ultima Online. They all ended up removing them, all citing reasons around #1.
4) Now that we are finally getting some real info about development of the maps -- and it is nice to get it -- it just proves how far off they were from what we were being led to believe. Not a good way to care for the hands feeding you, Caspian.
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Not really impressed, a proper wold gen involves erosion to sculpt the land forms and create the rivers simultaneously with the drainage topography. SBS clearly generated terrain first without the influence of erosion and then tries to model water flow with no alteration of terrain.
That's causing far too many parallel down slope rivulets and a complete lack of major river confluences or proper deltas and alluvial fans. It's fairly obvious that the rivers their generating don't really 'Go' anywhere because the underlying terrain dose not guide them to the sea. A whole lot of code seems to have been thrown at the problem for very little verisimilitude to an actual world. That goes for virtually everything we have ever been show, shorelines, mountains, rivers, political borders etc, nothing looks natural.
I suspect the root problem is that they starting with top down noise based generation and when that looks bad more steps are piled on to massage it into looking like it's a bottom up simulation, but that's just throwing good money after bad. The proper way to do this is a full bottom up simulation from starting with plate tectonics all the way to settlement growth.
But SBS keeps locking itself into the earlier poor code output by releasing partial maps, having us pick things etc. Now as they try to do the 'final touches' the legacy outputs are constraining everything and producing GIGO results.
Use what ever you get out of this for Alpha and Beta but frankly we should do the whole map gen over again backing up as far as the players are willing for actual final game.
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Posted By Lodrig at 02:04 AM - Wed Jun 12 2019
Not really impressed, a proper wold gen involves erosion to sculpt the land forms and create the rivers simultaneously with the drainage topography. SBS clearly generated terrain first without the influence of erosion and then tries to model water flow with no alteration of terrain.
Whoah, hold up. No one said that. There is a difference between "We don't use this process for that" and "we don't do that at all" - and the space between them seems to be where you leapt to the wrong conclusion. If one looks at the coastline of the images we've shared, it should be pretty obvious that erosion has, in fact, been factored into the process. If that isn't clearly seen, then please allow me to say it explicitly: Erosion has been factored into the world generation process. In fact, this water sim doesn't touch the world until after erosion has been factored into the terrain data.
At a certain point in the process, we "freeze" the terrain - it becomes static data, a heightfield, that we then use in further world generation steps. From then on, the terrain is not malleable and cannot be terraformed. Once the terrain is static like this, we then model flow and water storage conditions for the static terrain data, that's the water sim we're talking about here.
Hope that helps! :)
Posted By Snipehunter at 10:15 AM - Wed Jun 12 2019
Posted By Lodrig at 02:04 AM - Wed Jun 12 2019
Not really impressed, a proper wold gen involves erosion to sculpt the land forms and create the rivers simultaneously with the drainage topography. SBS clearly generated terrain first without the influence of erosion and then tries to model water flow with no alteration of terrain.
Whoah, hold up. No one said that. There is a difference between "We don't use this process for that" and "we don't do that at all" - and the space between them seems to be where you leapt to the wrong conclusion. If one looks at the coastline of the images we've shared, it should be pretty obvious that erosion has, in fact, been factored into the process. If that isn't clearly seen, then please allow me to say it explicitly: Erosion has been factored into the world generation process. In fact, this water sim doesn't touch the world until after erosion has been factored into the terrain data.
At a certain point in the process, we "freeze" the terrain - it becomes static data, a heightfield, that we then use in further world generation steps. From then on, the terrain is not malleable and cannot be terraformed. Once the terrain is static like this, we then model flow and water storage conditions for the static terrain data, that's the water sim we're talking about here.
Hope that helps! :)
I was wondering this. Does that mean we will see some larger examples of erosion such as canyons or glacial erosion?
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