Star Citizen trailer shows procedurally-generated planets
Star Citizen is aiming for a scope unlike anything seen and to display that ambition, Cloud Imperium Games has released a new trailer showing off its procedurally-generated planets.
Star Citizen has been busy just prior to the holidays, recently kicking off its Alpha 2.0. However, Cloud Imperium Games isn't done. As part of its Holiday Live Stream, the studio released the game's latest trailer, this time highlighting its procedurally generated planet system.
Planets are constructed from the ground-up, down to its terrain and its atmosphere. The video walks viewers through what goes into constructing each individual planet, noting that because planets of this level of detail cannot fit in memory, CIG has opted for the procedurally-generated route.
The video below is constructed with full in-engine footage.
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That's some pretty neat tech though right now I would like to see some stabilization on 2.0. I've been unable to get a single solid session in with a friend.
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Yeah, Christmas 2019
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Our group (5 including me) - we're all running different rigs (mostly high end to extremely high end) running combinations of Win 7, 8.1, and 10.
None of us can run the game with it either crashing / freezing on start or (like myself) can get to accessing the 2.0 feature, and then having it crash.
We've tried fresh installs of the game, even fresh OS install with newest DirectX and nVidia drivers. If it weren't for the game play videos we'd think the whole thing was some prank of the year.
I think I'll just wait until the game comes out so they can (hopefully) work out the bugs.
Maybe it's because we're all using nVidia cards (970s, 980s, one Titan, one 980 ti) what are you all using?-
I have 2x 980s in SLI. What I was running into was a lot of server instability where the server would have a failure and then cause the client to crash/lock up. We tried for about 2 hours, just 2 of us, and only managed to get together 3 times. Of those, 2 resulted with my client crashing/locking up.
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I've got a group of four with the same frequent crashing and freezing. 970s, 980s.
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That honestly makes sense to do.
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This looks very good, I am really looking forward to land manually on planets!
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Actual footage of a guy landing on the planet. Not a cutscene/trailer.
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If anyone hasn't at least signed up on the site, go here. Yes it's got my referral code. You get 5k in spending money, and I get some hangar decorations and a gun.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-VZ4C-P92W
Alternately, you can manually enter STAR-VZ4C-P92W
Apologies for the whoring... but I haven't got one solid referral AND I WANT MY HANGAR DECORATION! lol.-
Dude, you are keener to flog your stuff than a space prostitute
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Here's Chris Roberts playing his own game: https://youtu.be/ZWq8ynUq7wM?t=23s
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Fuck I'm dying, this is hilarious.
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I want to believe this is not a thing that actually happened. But it looks like a thing that actually happened.
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The only part of this that is t super awesome to me is the part where they say "since the whole planet can't fit in memory..." It is generated every time.
This means that they won't be destructible and won't change as, say, you mine them.
But really that's just nitpicking because this is really cool.
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