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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Retsof on January 29, 2009, 08:14:26 pm

Title: Conjecture: Procedural Generation in RTS.
Post by: Retsof on January 29, 2009, 08:14:26 pm

Just something to think about, having to do with creating ships and vehicles in an RTS.  I doubt it's really possible, but it would be cool anyway.
So say you want to create a custom ship.  You decide locations and facings for the turrets and systems, and perhaps put in a very basic shape.  The computer then uses a sort of style template that fits the faction you are playing as (if there are multiple styles you could pick one) and generates the ship.

Thoughts?

Title: Re: Conjecture: Procedural Generation in RTS.
Post by: Flipside on January 29, 2009, 08:16:28 pm

A sort of mixture of Spore and Sins of a Solar Empire?

Title: Re: Conjecture: Procedural Generation in RTS.
Post by: Retsof on January 29, 2009, 08:21:52 pm

Hm.... something like that, yes.

Title: Re: Conjecture: Procedural Generation in RTS.
Post by: Hellstryker on January 29, 2009, 09:06:29 pm

It's certainly doable... And probably has been done before, though I can't think of anything like it off the top of my head.

Title: Re: Conjecture: Procedural Generation in RTS.
Post by: Hippo on January 29, 2009, 09:08:39 pm

spore did it

Title: Re: Conjecture: Procedural Generation in RTS.
Post by: Retsof on January 29, 2009, 10:55:19 pm

Well, I googled it, found lots of spore references and an indiegame procedural generation competition, but nothing like what I described above.  Well, mabey some designer will stumble onto this thread and think its a good idea.   :rolleyes: