โCan I make a sword underwaterโ
vanishes from the material plane
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This is scary! I didnโt know you could call mods like that, but if Iโd ever done accidentlyโฆ
A while back, I was just doing something silly: private message to system just to see if someone would even answer. I didnโt know it could have been illegal. Thankfully, youโre saying that itโs not illegal.
I wonโt risk calling these mods by putting an intermediary character to allow Murphyโs laws to intervene in the situation.
Is there anything else I should know?
Of note is that these editors/choices are already accessible to NPC cells - for appearance, several membrane textures and RGB colors can be selected. For behavior, there are 4 personality variables.
In its most simple incarnation, the appearance and behavior editors would simply be a way to choose those with sliders and the like.
A more advanced behavior editor would include automatic adaptation to the playerโs style, as well as more specific behavior programming (like towards a specific species).
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Why is the censor word Belgium?
Itโs a reference to โThe Hitchhikerโs Guide to the Galaxyโ.
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I read the first book only. Where in Hitchhikerโs Guide?
I donโt know, I never read the book, only the wiki page that mentions it.
Itโs one of the many throwaway jokes Douglas Adams constantly makes throughout the book, where he denotes the worst possible insult in the universe to be โBelgiumโ, which then coincidentally corresponded with the country on Earth. Itโs comparable to something like the Babel fish proving/disproving God at the same time, and the telekinetic drinking game, where itโs some just some small joke that never gets mentioned again,
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Iโm pretty sure it is in the beginning of the first book where it is referenced for the first time.
Second time Iโm posting this link on these forums:
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Nah, the first book started with a criticism of โunhappy people using green strips of paper.โ
โBelgiumโ is uttered later in the series, where Dent and Beeblebrox are falling. A joke at the same time, I think, was โflying is just falling and missing the ground.โ
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Maybe it was the movie adaptation (2005), then. But I remember that in the intro sequence it is said that belgium happens to be a place on Earth and the most offensive word in the galaxy.
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I have no Idea, I only read the first book. But thanks anyway. (oddly I remember the drinking game description.)
So I remember on the old forum (or maybe it was Reddit) a developper said that planets in Thrive will be bigger than those in Spore but smaller than the moon, is this still the plan?
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oof I didnโt see that thread in a while and wanted to get that necro myself for even longer. Oh well.
I donโt how to answer your question, but I would agree with bigger planets in the game than Sporeโs. Instead of being smaller than the Moon, it could just be as big as in Space Engineers. In that game, Earth is like really huge! Though, all celestial bodies in that game are of the same size, so Thriveโs should be proportional.
A way to avoid lag in those circumstances would be to use dynamic data, thus putting the computer power to the RAM instead of the CPU/GPU. Like the planet could be loaded only when close enough, and then the outer space isnโt considered into account. Things should be dynamic to play on bigger planets.
Weโre going to make the planets as realistically sized as we can. Technical limitations are probably going to force us to compromise something regarding the planet size.
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But would dynamic data (like loading a map/planet only when necessary) make it easier to load?
That is absolutely necessary. Itโs simply impossible to have big game worlds without dynamically loading in the content as the player moves around.
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In the society stage, will you be able to play against another sentient species other than yours?
Depends on timescales. For example see this:
Another question: would it be possible to use heightmaps for planets?
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