[There are a lot of questions about procedural generation, since Sean presented the initial demo.] Who did work on the procedural generation?
TL;DRProcedural generation was mainly worked on by three named team members, and the speakers stress that the work is a team effort of many people, with presenters not necessarily being the makers.
I haven't even worked on it that much since then, to be honest with you. Marco Corbetta, Carsten Wenzel, and a guy named Pascal was doing a lot of the art. The main three, anyway. But again, it's a team here. There are bits and pieces every month.
That's an important thing that gets lost lots of times. You may see the same people in front of the camera giving you this information, but this is a team of over 300 people just in our company, and then all the outsourcers that are working on this. It is definitely a group effort. You may be the one to present something, or Matt may be the one to present something, or us.
Right. Doesn't mean we actually made it. And trust me, those are real uncomfortable demos when you've not had anything to do with anything and then you're the one having to show it. Luckily, the procedural one I had a little bit of say in.
I like that we were showing procedural generation for the first time and the thing you were most nervous about was being able to land.
I'm not good at landing. But I would argue it's because our landing system is not good, not because I'm not good. People were watching my video of the landing, like, why didn't you just go decoupled? What you don't know is that the thrust of the ship was 4,000 times what it was meant to be, so I had to be real touchy with it. Some really cool stuff got working on the planets this week. We've shown some physics stuff with it, so we had talked about the fact that we have physics on it now. There's been some really nice work on the gravity for the planets, so that's really cool. But with Chris being out there in Frankfurt with the guys directly, I can imagine that every day he was pushing something that they had to get done. So, some great work this week anyway.