The funny thing about this is that it seems that there has established a new kind of 3d engines which provide features for setting up islands and landscapes in an easy way. Depending on the product this can go so far that others, in a more general sense, more serious 3d functions are hold back because landscape functions are priority one.
I'm not sure who started all this, if the desires came from the users who also wanted to do a Far Cry game or the developers how also wanted to write a Far Cry like engine. Maybe the excitement jumped from one to each other and it just evolved. Anyway this sort of engines so far brew two different kind of apps/games.
Type A are those projects which likely never seeing the light of day. It's really amazing seeing some users on the Unity forum investing huge amount of time into just the visual aspect and tweaking their trees, textures, landscape and so on. Some of them look very beautiful but i still haven't seen one filled with some gameplay or a gameplay which suits to that visuals.
Type B are those games which mostly don't use any of these options and just focus on he gameplay. They are also those which get done first.
Some seem to prefer experimenting with games and some just enjoy building virtual environments were they can walk through. Of course there always are exceptions and a type C were all comes together nicely and i'm confident that the more serious ones will go their way but so far i've mainly seen A and B.
By the way are there no artists using this engine? It really would help a lot if the scenes wouldn't always look like some bad coder art. There are island demos made with the basic Unity Indie which look a lot better than the pictures provided in this thread, i'm not talking about the technical side.
I'm not sure who started all this, if the desires came from the users who also wanted to do a Far Cry game or the developers how also wanted to write a Far Cry like engine. Maybe the excitement jumped from one to each other and it just evolved. Anyway this sort of engines so far brew two different kind of apps/games.
Type A are those projects which likely never seeing the light of day. It's really amazing seeing some users on the Unity forum investing huge amount of time into just the visual aspect and tweaking their trees, textures, landscape and so on. Some of them look very beautiful but i still haven't seen one filled with some gameplay or a gameplay which suits to that visuals.
Type B are those games which mostly don't use any of these options and just focus on he gameplay. They are also those which get done first.
Some seem to prefer experimenting with games and some just enjoy building virtual environments were they can walk through. Of course there always are exceptions and a type C were all comes together nicely and i'm confident that the more serious ones will go their way but so far i've mainly seen A and B.
By the way are there no artists using this engine? It really would help a lot if the scenes wouldn't always look like some bad coder art. There are island demos made with the basic Unity Indie which look a lot better than the pictures provided in this thread, i'm not talking about the technical side.