{"id":1920,"date":"2011-01-18T20:32:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T09:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2011-01-18T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T10:15:07","slug":"what-i-dont-want-mmorpg-tycoon-2-to-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2011\/01\/18\/what-i-dont-want-mmorpg-tycoon-2-to-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What I don&#8217;t want MMORPG Tycoon 2 to look like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/eek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1921\" title=\"eek\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/eek-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/eek-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/eek-1024x862.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/eek.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Maybe it&#8217;s just me.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m completely paranoid about MMORPG Tycoon 2 ending up looking something like this;\u00a0 an endless expanse of identical trees, sprouting from all sorts of improbable places, in the middle of a simple height map that manages to look matte and unlit, despite the presence of a directional light.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure precisely what I need to do to avoid this, since the sort of asset re-use that was key in making this awful vista is also going to be required in MMORPG Tycoon 2.\u00a0 Maybe if there were any sort of shadows being cast it&#8217;d help.\u00a0 Or maybe if the trees weren&#8217;t quite so awful.\u00a0 Or if the rocks weren&#8217;t simply amorphous blobs wedged into a monochromatic height map.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 I saw this vista in a modern MMO the other day, and was immediately seized by the terror of &#8220;how do I avoid creating this, myself?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anybody have thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m completely paranoid about MMORPG Tycoon 2 ending up looking something like this;\u00a0 an endless expanse of identical trees, sprouting from all sorts of improbable places, in the middle of a simple height map that manages to look matte and unlit, despite the presence of a directional light. I&#8217;m not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-uY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}