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Procedural Programming- The Secret Behind Spore

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-thought-it-was-crack dept.

imashoe writes "Ever wonder how Spore works under the hood? The game seems to be insanely huge and how is it that there can be an infinite amount of different creates created in the game? The answer is Procedural Programming."

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  1. Eh? by MrSteveSD · · Score: 5, Informative

    I really feel like the person who wrote the article doesn't know what he is talking about.

    1. Re:Eh? by mmacdona86 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yes, the distinction that they are probably trying to make is that between procedural or algorithmic content generation and the more common situation where content is created individually by artists.

      The talk about procedural versus object-oriented programming is moronic bs.

    2. Re:Eh? by MrSteveSD · · Score: 3, Informative

      Yes, the distinction that they are probably trying to make is that between procedural or algorithmic content generation and the more common situation where content is created individually by artists.

      Yeah, that would be something interesting to talk about. Whoever wrote the article probably isn't the man to do it though. Did you ever play Kreiger? http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger#20 They managed to cram a 3D first person shooter into 96k. It relies heavily on procedurally generated content.
  2. Crap alert by VeryProfessional · · Score: 4, Informative

    This article reads like pure garbage. Procedural programming simply refers to any form of programming in which procedure calls are made... ie. any mainstream imperative programming language. Does anybody really believe that games fill up multiple DVDs because there are too many IF statements? Editors, wake up please.

  3. Procedural Generation? by Asgerix · · Score: 5, Informative

    Perhaps the author is confusing Procedural Programming with Procedural Generation?

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  4. Reminds me of Elite... by tcopeland · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...that is, this game which had an "infinite" universe. The book Infinite Game Universe has some good discussions of this sort of thing, too.

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  5. Re:Vaporware by MindStalker · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh come on, its only been 2 years. A lot of games have taken 3 years sense their first showing to the public till release. DNF is going on 11 years. No comparison really.

  6. Re:Typo in summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uhh... No. A 3D cube has six faces. At any given time, at most 3 are visible in a 2D projection of a 3D scene. It takes two triangles to represent a square face (many 3D toolkits "really" only using triangles underneath). So, 6 triangles. So, the original poster was correct, you lose, do not pass go, do not collect 200.

  7. Re:Attention Procedural Programmers by mikael · · Score: 5, Informative

    Procedural generation

    Spore

    Terrain synthesis/generator - Terragen

    Renderman shaders

    Procedural animation

    Practical procedural modeling of plants

    Procedural planets

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  8. The article already removed from bonafidereviews by S3D · · Score: 4, Informative
    The link form TFA no gives:

    We appreciate the honest feedback and correction regarding the content of this article. While it was well intentioned, it was inaccurate and for that we apologize. Accordingly this article has been removed.

    Something not good going with slashdot choice of article lately.