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[GrayChild]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5AIpncO_9I

Take a look at our "City Generator" tech tool that we developed. With it, we are able to generate a rich, visually varied, open-world city in merely a few moments. And the best part is, when The Sinking City arrives, we are planning on sharing this tool with you.

Feed me to the Old Ones if old.

 

[gundalf]

We call this procedural modeling/generation which is pretty cool but nothing new.
Two well known titles which use this technique are Hellgate London and Minecraft.

 

[Sosokrates]

Cool tech, I wonder what there game will be like.

 

[Croatoan]

wonder if they will sell their tech on the asset store. There are other plugins for UE4 that do similar, yet less powerful, things.

 

[nkarafo]

But this way every street and road will look the same or very similar to others. Sure, buildings may have variations but what about anything else in a functional city?

 

[Darak]

Procedural map generation is nothing new. It also doesn't work very well.

The brain is extremely efficient at detecting patterns and repetitions. The more detailed and complex the building blocks are, the easier is for the brain to see through those tricks. Usually, artists must go to great lengths in order to hide repetitions with elements such as textures or prop placement. Unless they go ahead and customize the hell of those procedural streets (and then, why not build them by hand to begin with?) they will end up with kilometers of samey streets that are not worth exploring.

Games where exploration is not the point (Diablo), or those using very simple graphics and building blocks (Minecraft) can make it work, but even then the generated maps are not very interesting compared to anything made by a real person.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Looks good.