So it’s finally happening; subscribers can now actually travel between MMO regions. Pictured here is the very first subscriber to decide to travel from one region to another, immediately before passing from one region into the other. Not pictured is the game universe abruptly exploding a few seconds later, because the system couldn’t cope with…

Just a little eye candy today. I’ve adjusted the terrain rendering such that most of the terrain information is now carried in textures, instead of in vertex data. This means that when I draw low-resolution terrain meshes (which have fewer vertices covering a larger area), those low-resolution meshes can still be use high-detail ground textures…

I’ve been ill for a lot of the last week (and am still suffering from the dregs of that), but I wanted to show a couple screenshots. Amongst other things, I’ve been working on making paths between regions. Originally, my plan had been to simply make simple tunnels — when creating a path from region…

As much as I think there should be more blue skies in video games, MMORPG Tycoon 2’s default appearance possibly was a little over the top, and it made everywhere in the world look a little bit the same. As of now, each MMO game region now gets different environmental settings, in addition to the…