/v/ - Video Games

>>16292014

>I don't think you're looking for an open world game.

Yeah not necessarly, im honestly mostly curious if there's any such games at all apart from rts and the like where it's something that (usually) is a must for the game.

>>16292003

Terraria loads the whole world at once but monsters only spawn in a just off screen rectangle around a player. With a few exceptions.

>>16292003

Dwarf Fortress loads the entire world at the start and keeps it running whether or not you're doing anything. Other than that I believe there's nothing else. Even MMOs load worlds and areas depending on if players are in them.

What you're asking for is simple inefficiency for almost any game that is larger than what is presented on screen at once. Loading the world while the player moves fast is a chronic problem. Anyone who actually tried the scrolls of Icarian Flight in Morrowind just to see what would happen knows this. Probably the game that does this the best would be GTA or the Just Cause series.

>>16292269

OpenMW has a feature that loads all nearby cells, which together with its faster loading, making things virtually seamless. It's not all in one cell, but still.

my balls >:)

>>16292322

That's cool. I haven't tried Icarian Flight in OpenMW and now I'm curious.

>>16292269

>presented on screen at once

Shouldn't just load what is "on screen" because then you get retarded things like looking away from something makes it disappear. I forget what game it was, but pedestrians and cars would do that and it was really jarring.

To avoid this it should be an area around the player. Lower the graphics if you have too, I'd rather the game actually run well.

>>16292003

Eat shit and die.

Computer processing power isn't good enough to allow this except for extremely small map areas, so games are built around the expectation that they won't. You're probably going to have to wait 20 or 30 more years for this idea to even be feasible.

>>16292039

For DF, you have to use "world" in the loosest possible sense, because it has no graphical representation except wherever you are.

>>16292439

There's a difference between loading and rendering. Having said that, yeah obviously you should load things immediately outside of player vision, but loading the entire map at once is the opposite end of the spectrum.

>>16292553

>playing State of Decay now and it really ruins the immersion when the zombies spawn out of thin air behind me.

Dying Light does this too, and it is infuriating, to the point that it made me ragequit the game and not recommend even pirating it.

Sometimes it will show the zombies crawling out from under vehicles and sewers, but other times you will be a completely deserted area, turn away for literally a couple of seconds, and when you turn back there will be a horde of zombies behind you. I actually caught the game red handed spawning zombies out of thin air a few times, when I quickly turned my character suddenly.

>>16292003

Only way that'd be possible is if the developer intentionally made the game that way. Even in a lot of level-based games only parts of the level art loaded in at a time. For it to be feasible you'd either have to change the engine so that it utilizes enthusiast grade hardware (IE: An open world engine that requires a 2080ti and uses 32GB of RAM as a minimum) or create a low-fidelity world (like Daggerfall levels of low-fidelity).

>>16292981

The GPU is not a serious constraint unless you also intend to render everything at once, which is stupid and pointless. Things don't usually take much time to render, they take time to load into memory so that they can be rendered. The main benefit would be an impressive draw distance, but even then it wouldn't be very hard to devise a "horizon line" algorithm that stops rendering anything that would be invisible past the horizon line anyway (like a building which is behind a taller building).

>>16292895

That's even worse

They're even more reddit than cuckchan these days, downright to the reddit inspired UI.

Fucking stay there cunt

>>16292003

bdo

arma2

>>16292003

Asheron's Call

>>16292003

Buy a whole bunch of RAM and load the whole game into RAM disk?

Just LOD it and use an icosphere if the world is fuck-off huge.

>make three tiers of map: low detail (stays in memory, has everything relevant like trees and buildings), medium detail (fades in at ~250m) and high detail (built on top of medium, fades in at ~100m)

>make sure the distances are adjustable for different GPUs

>icosphere ensures that you won't choke your card rendering the other side of the country (or use a cylinder shader like the one Animal Crossing uses if you want to be lazy)

>>16292003

>>16293311

The A-lives of STALKER and Bethesda games are only partially loaded, meaning that there are NPCs who travel around the world and fight or interact with other NPCs, but these are extremely simplified into smaller functions when they're out of player's cells to reduce CPU taxing.

>>16293311

it only tracks NPCs in the current map you are in

>>16293550

Bethesda does that. The optimization is still poor regardless.

>>16293596

No, actually it also tracks NPCs outside your map, but in a much more simplified way.