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Very cute, although the ships look samish (would probably be interesting to start with different base templates etc. Still, it's only a few steps away from "random British 1970s SF book cover".
Do you have a link to the book cover generator? Or is that a metaphor?
I grew up imagining these spaceships becoming reality, and now .. they sort of are .. at least, I can bend and play with spaceships just like them now, albeit .. in Blender .. ;)
> Start with a box. And end with some boxes stuck together.
The other thing though, you can do to a box modelled project, is round all the edges to varying degrees, and end up with something looking much more fluid and amorphous. However, I suspect the results would be far more unpredictable if he through something like that into this script, so it'd be difficult to go there procedurally.
> Start with a box. And end with some boxes stuck together.
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> I don't really like most procedural generation. The demo scene has some mind-blowing stuff.
Demoscene is awesome but I see one off generation as a type of compression. What I have in mind is games where procedurally generated families of things are supposed to be interesting and worth exploring and discovering. I find those underwhelming.
An entire galaxy of planets, fauna and creatures (including shape, coloring and even voices) is procedurally generated!
Oh wow - I can procedurally generate 3D models ?!!! Blender tutorial needed :-)
There goes your weekend.
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You are severely underestimating the effort good procedural content takes.
And perhaps you are severley underestimating the effort large-scale world assets take to create. I agree that doing procedural generation properly takes a lot of work, but there's a reason that AAA open-world games like GTAV cost hunderends of millions of dollars to develop.
We could even argue that AAA game studios using hand-modeled art assets instead of procedurally generated content is proof that hand-modelling is the "cheaper" route. Though most AAA game studios are using a hybrid approach and have some form of procedurally generated content in their pipeline, whether it's to create quests or to create the baseline environment on top of which bespoke content is added.
Projects are hard. Full stop.
I love that the ships look more like "skyscrapers in space" then airplane like spaceships we usually see in tv shows/movies. This is most likely (according to multiple hard scifi authors) a much more realistic depiction of how spaceships are going to look like. Example given: The Expanse - "Flip and Burn" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4EiW1bHwsQ
I saw the headline and initially assumed it would be some droll Game of Life invention. Then I thought, no, maybe its some automatic sci-fi art generation script. And I was rewarded! Procedural generation like this is quite possibly key to the future of indie games- if you don't have the team to design large sets of art assets, its important to be able to put something pretty out there using your own wit. (A good exa…
You are severely underestimating the effort good procedural content takes.
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> I don't really like most procedural generation. The demo scene has some mind-blowing stuff.
Demoscene is awesome but I see one off generation as a type of compression. What I have in mind is games where procedurally generated families of things are supposed to be interesting and worth exploring and discovering. I find those underwhelming.