Will there be full and dense forests on planets?asked by Reborn
TL;DRYes, dense forests are being worked on with procedurally assisted placement and will be as dense as can run well, but they are not in the next release.
Yes, there will be. This is still something we are working pretty hard on. Right now the focus is on the next major release, i don't think is beyond saying we don't have any dense forests stuff in the next release per se. We are absolutely working on it. At Citizencon we showed off some of the vegetation assets and we are seeing how dense we can make them. We are just finalising development on this. I like the term 'procedurally assisted' because a lot of people talk about procedural generations where they assume it is just a program that comes up with stuff and the the pure other side which is all art driven, we are somewhere in the middle where it is procedural assistance through tools. We have a procedural assisted placement of all the outposts or forests and we are getting that finalised and in a state that the performance is in a good place. Will we have forests? Absolutely! Have dense will they be? They will be as dense as we can make them and still run well.