Procedural City

[Kornman00]

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The recently revealed New York City setting for Crysis 2 was met with just a touch of disappointment. "What of the open environments?!" commenters cried. Well, if Crysis 2 uses this tech, I don't think openness will be an issue.

Reader Jay tipped us off to this "Structure Procedural System" tech demo, which can generate building interiors dynamically, without overtaxing the memory of, say, the non-upgradeable consoles that Crysis 2 is coming to. And since this system was developed by Crytek programmer Marco Corbetta and 3D modeler Miragoli Gianluca—who doesn't work at Crytek to the best of our knowledge—it's not out of the question.

If Crytek can apply some of those fancy graphics to a system like this, we might not be too unhappy to shoot up Crysis 2's concrete jungle.

[Lateksi]

I thought they'd use something like this, the game setting in the city and all. But did you notice in Crysis the non-organic materials looked only decent. I hope they'll improve them and make them look as good as plants etc.

[Kornman00]

I've never played Crysis, just thought the community would take interest in this

[StankBacon]

that's pretty impressive, id love to see a game use this tech.

[Jean-Luc]

It's an interesting technology but it would need some serious modification for it to live up to Crysis's high standard of visuals.

[Con]

Procedural is the way of the future.

[paladin]

Thats amazing, can the destruction be tweaked to be more realistic? Also, if you blow out every wall on a floor, does the building collapse?

[Chainsy]

Wow, everyone, they just wanted to show off how it works, they're not going to put the time to add particles and a bunch of perms and make it look like a retail game with great shaders and textures. They wanted to get their point across, obviously if it's implemented into crysis it will be majorly enhanced as there will be time to do those things. They're not fools.

[Jean-Luc]

Jesus Chainsy, calm down. Last I checked, nobody here was criticizing this technology on any level.

[Timo]

Wow, everyone, they just wanted to show off how it works, they're not going to put the time to add particles and a bunch of perms and make it look like a retail game with great shaders and textures. They wanted to get their point across, obviously if it's implemented into crysis it will be majorly enhanced as there will be time to do those things. They're not fools.

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