I was impressed by this.

[andrewducker]

A nice demo of the virtual texturing technique (also seen as MegaTexture in the engine for the next game from iD). Being able to zoom all the way in and out, and to fly over the whole area without any loading time at all is damned impressive.

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Download it and have a play yourself here.

via sarahs_muse

Comments

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

Very clever way of handling it too. I suppose normal repeat textures could be used at lower heights/ shallower angles to add some more detail without the normal tiling effects.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it's only for Windows.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

I just said out loud, "ten gig of hard disk space! that's crazy talk"

sorry just a voice from the mid nineties had to speak up

[andrewducker]

It does sometimes seem ridiculous, living in the future...