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Nov 4, 2005, 3:07am

I would like to be able to use a program like Geoscape 3D or GroundWiz to
create a terrain like the ones found at this link
http://www.gugila.com/gallery01.html and then upload it to my world and
STILL have the ability to edit it in real time after the fact...am I asking
too much?

Jalen Blade
Owner of Aureus

Mar 9, 2006, 1:00am

No, you are not asking too much.

Currently waiting on the new 4.1 browser, and I am holding off on making any
new wishes to the terrain editing and features. Quite some time ago I played
a little game called Star Wars Galaxies. I was in beta, and durring that
time I made a wish that has not happened yet. I wanted to be able to assign
a texture to an area, and have it blend in with its neighbor... similar to
what SWG does. Been a couple of years since asked and I do not play SWG
anymore for reasons I won't go into here, but it had some very inovative
ideas. I'm no programmer, but based on my current knowledge, I think making
my wish come true is likely but only if someone has incentive to actually
program it. Same with your wishlist item... mine is a subset of your wish I
think. I took a look at the website you linked, and I feel that AW could be
programmed with something somewhat like the pictures I saw, but at the price
of a little lag. From my understanding of these things though, most games
that have similar or better terrain do so at the price of other features
and/or using tricks and using limits on the characters abilities. Such as
limiting the area the player can enter, thus hiding areas. Characters in
games don't fly like in AW, so many artifacts we see that also exist in
games can't be seen. Characters are often pathed in games thus limiting what
they can see. Doing this on the fly while allowing the freedom of movement
we expect in AW may not be wholely possible with the cpu's, memory and gpu's
we currently have without making some very significant reprogramming of the
browser towards a particular model of GPU. Such as concentrating the AW
browser on the nVidia 6800+ gpu set. Which I certainly would not mind, but a
lot of other people would. :P

I know it's been a year since your post, but I thought I'd add my 2 cents.
Someone else have a nickel they can add?

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