Map expansion?

[MultiFrαpsεr ツ]

Hi! I just thought that is there any plans to make the map even larger in the future, perhaps have some more highway routes, maybe having a second town or a smaller lake? Perhaps featuring some huge farm acress?

[FurBall]

Nope. The game engine can't handle it.

[dbtractor]

Have you used unity

[MultiFrαpsεr ツ]

Can't handle? Why not, we're living in 2017 where this is possible, very easily.

[joridiculous]

Map is already at max.
We can always hope he will add more thing to it though. There is plenty room for more towns/villages/etc and long roads.
Question is of course, can the game handle more :P

[MultiFrαpsεr ツ]

Exactly, and I think it could but of course it would need some tweaking for the game engine. Maybe feature in far future a option to either render the WHOLE map from the beginning (which will make loading times much longer) or either render them as you move forward by junks, similar like we see in older games or even in Minecraft, or then like we can see in some games such as GTA VC where you cross a city line and it renders the new side of the map, forgetting the other one. There are many possibilities, but of course if there is time and motivation to build up something like this it will definitelly work. As said, it has been done before in hundreds of different games.

[joridiculous]

How its usally done (Very simplified). Many smal maps stitched together in the world, and is pre-rendered as you come close to the "border".
How this is done differs from engine to engine and game to game. (Skyrim and Witcher3 is good examples of to completly different enigens using same'ish techniques to render their open worlds)

That is why you have options like LOD, Drawdistance, "fog" etc.

Unity isnt perticullary good at any of this.

[MultiFrαpsεr ツ]

Hmm, alright thanks for the tip! I don't know much about the game engines or script writing in general, so therefore I thought that the system was almost exact in every game engine.

[FurBall]

Автор сообщения: MultiFrαpsεr ツ

Can't handle? Why not, we're living in 2017 where this is possible, very easily.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/516750/discussions/6/1471966894880525872/#c1471966894881987944

[rhcpepper]

Why couldn't there just be a separate map? Like in the old days, when you get to a certain point the game pauses and you see "loading..." or whatever. Then you are in the new map, nothing in the old map is loaded anymore. Something like the game The Long Dark does?

[MultiFrαpsεr ツ]

Автор сообщения: rhcpepper

Why couldn't there just be a separate map? Like in the old days, when you get to a certain point the game pauses and you see "loading..." or whatever. Then you are in the new map, nothing in the old map is loaded anymore. Something like the game The Long Dark does?

Exactly what I meant. I bet unity can handle it, oh well because The Long Dark runs with unity and offers the map system like rchpepper explained.

However it's a completely different story wether or not the devs are able to make it by their skill level/time, I can imagine something like that taking some time and effort to implement. Oh and speaking about it actually not bugging out. But it's possible still to implement it.

[FurBall]

Автор сообщения: MultiFrαpsεr ツ

Автор сообщения: rhcpepper

Why couldn't there just be a separate map? Like in the old days, when you get to a certain point the game pauses and you see "loading..." or whatever. Then you are in the new map, nothing in the old map is loaded anymore. Something like the game The Long Dark does?

Exactly what I meant. I bet unity can handle it, oh well because The Long Dark runs with unity and offers the map system like rchpepper explained.

However it's a completely different story wether or not the devs are able to make it by their skill level/time, I can imagine something like that taking some time and effort to implement. Oh and speaking about it actually not bugging out. But it's possible still to implement it.

If it is implemented, it would probably take a long time since there is only one dev (Toplessgun and his wife are the only ones that work on it.)

[ChyonE]

Unity can handle it you should see the games they make with with complete overload that it can handle its still fine
Dont say things that u never tried atleast try for ♥♥♥♥ sakes i had 4 satsumas and no problem so i dont see any problem with afew more roads and afew ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ km won't hurt anything its the devs fault for faulty coding and mapping

[FurBall]

Автор сообщения: PyOnE

Unity can handle it you should see the games they make with with complete overload that it can handle its still fine
Dont say things that u never tried atleast try for ♥♥♥♥ sakes i had 4 satsumas and no problem so i dont see any problem with afew more roads and afew ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ km won't hurt anything its the devs fault for faulty coding and mapping

Don't go blaming Topless. He is a great developer especially since he is working on this game alone. I would like to see you make a better game. You can't even get the steam overlay to work (http://steamcommunity.com/app/516750/discussions/2/1471967529573104155/). This is an early-access game. The ♥♥♥♥ do you expect it to be? Perfect?


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[ChyonE]

Автор сообщения: IDGAF Anymore

Автор сообщения: PyOnE

Unity can handle it you should see the games they make with with complete overload that it can handle its still fine
Dont say things that u never tried atleast try for ♥♥♥♥ sakes i had 4 satsumas and no problem so i dont see any problem with afew more roads and afew ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ km won't hurt anything its the devs fault for faulty coding and mapping

Don't go blaming Topless. He is a great developer especially since he is working on this game alone. I would like to see you make a better game. You can't even get the steam overlay to work (http://steamcommunity.com/app/516750/discussions/2/1471967529573104155/). This is an early-access game. The ♥♥♥♥ do you expect it to be? Perfect?


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I didn't say topless is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ editor and me myself wouldn't and couldn't if i did i couldnt live with my self creating such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game and soo much has been going over my life it would be too much and now im stuffering from a skin disease i cant sleep i haven't slept over 5 days now becuase of this
But topless is a great dev im not lying about that the game is amazing im just saying people dont know what they're talking about atleast prove it that it won't work

Edit due to confusion i dont know how to even make a simple code

[FurBall]

Автор сообщения: PyOnE (afflicted)

Автор сообщения: IDGAF Anymore

Don't go blaming Topless. He is a great developer especially since he is working on this game alone. I would like to see you make a better game. You can't even get the steam overlay to work (http://steamcommunity.com/app/516750/discussions/2/1471967529573104155/). This is an early-access game. The ♥♥♥♥ do you expect it to be? Perfect?


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I didn't say topless is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ editor and me myself wouldn't and couldn't if i did i couldnt live with my self creating such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game and soo much has been going over my life it would be too much and now im stuffering from a skin disease i cant sleep i haven't slept over 5 days now becuase of this
But topless is a great dev im not lying about that the game is amazing im just saying people dont know what they're talking about atleast prove it that it won't work

Edit due to confusion i dont know how to even make a simple code

I was just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with ya Jess.