Do you ever foresee the planet tech allowing cliffs with overhangs, the kind of thing Wile E. Coyote would run out over?
TL;DROverhangs have been hard to do and remain difficult, but planned technical improvements could hopefully allow better cliffs and perhaps overhangs, without committing to any timing.
Probably since forever, but definitely since we worked on planet tech before, that has been the big thing we always try to get to work but haven't been able to figure out how to do. And it's still very difficult to do, just because of how our tech works and a lot of the specific quirks to make a planet at scale just work, and at all distances. It's something we always come back to. At least once a year, we're like, oh, can't we do this to make cliffs happen or overhangs happen? And I think there's a lot of very interesting stuff that's planned to happen in the next... whenever, we'll see, in the future. I don't want to commit anyone to anything. But there are definitely technical improvement plans that will make things like that more feasible and allow us to do better things easier and quicker. And one of them could hopefully be, if not overhangs, I mean probably also overhangs, but just better-looking cliffs, or any cliffs at all, and really straight cliff faces, which we really can't do right now because... Things are being done and I'm very hopeful that they will improve a lot of things and allow us to do things we couldn't do before. Fix the tiling of the ground textures, make proper cliffs, integrate assets better with the terrain. All of these things will piggyback on some fundamentals that are being worked on in the near or some future.