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carnage:
I know there are a few oblivion fans around here
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kat:
This is one of the inherent problems with games like Oblivion, the game world is so huge that artists don't have the time or resources to do that kind work. It also backs up what I keep saying about the reliance on 'boob' heightmap based terrain, that we shouldn't use it so much!

There's a lot of grunt work gone into putting that environment together, would be interesting to see just how well it plays from a performance point of view.

[EDIT]moved to public disc.

carnage:
Should pay more attention to what forum im in before posting.

Terrain from height map is so old now that I cant see how anyone gets away with it still. I think interesting outdoor environments like this could still be created easily with the right tool set, the artist really only need to lay out the general structure of the terrain. Because of the nature of nature :-\ a bit of random chaos usual just makes it look more real.

Now I have finaly finished my degree and my time is my own once again :D perhaps this is a good reason to pick up the old procedural generation project again.

ratty redemption [RIP]:
another topic i previously missed *ratty facepalms*

anyway, very impressive, thanks for posting the link carnage :)

kat:
Rather than start a new topic... Elder Scroll V: Skyrim has been officially announced with an initial release data of 11/11/11 next year. There is a teaser vid available but it doesn't show anything from within the game per-say. Not 100% on this but that sounds like Max von Sydow (Minority Report) doing the voice-over in the clip which speculatively means they've got some 'heavy weight' actors in again (Patrick Stewart being in the previous).

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