Creating a HUGE Open World In Unity (Sundermead Devlog 6)

[@Josephus97]

Hi everyone, I just uploaded a new devlog! Check it out here :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIK5ZIGihpl0l7c

[@mmgmismas]

Meaningless fact: Minecraft no longer uses 2 maps for biomes, now it uses 5 of them

[@Josephus97]

Well that seems excessive!

[@gllayvb9704]

This is really nice! Your style is not only informative but also intriguing and funny. Keep going, this has a lot of potential! A thing that I really like with your style is that you show parts of the code whilst explaining how the system works. The thing that I like with that is that it takes the concept that you are describing and puts it into execution. This is fairly helpful when dealing with aspects of code that I have very little experience in, it kind of acts like snipits in documentation! Btw, discovered this by the message you sent in randy's cave!

[@Josephus97]

Appreciate the kind words mate and I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@tapestixxy8531]

Great video! I love your humour and this was very informative, and Sundermead also seems like a very interesting game. Keep it up!

[@KamranWali]

The idea of the game is very interesting and I like it. Also implementing quad trees in your game is impressive and it looks super kool. Keep it up! :)

[@Josephus97]

Thanks! Means a lot :)

[@phillipcroukamp1825]

"If you don't understand that don't worry, I just started programming & hoped for the best" 😂 yeah that sums up my programming career well😅

[@dorfriedman9115]

Great job! A great to make the axe animation a bit more real is to make a frame for getting some height and back before we swing the axe (like real life), gain momentom for the swing

[@Josephus97]

Thanks! I had attempted to do that but I guess it didn't come out very well :D

[@S.I.L.E.N.C.E33]

Your game looks cool

[@Josephus97]

Why thank you :)

[@stickguy9109]

My favorite part was when screen turned black for 2 minutes straight

[@Josephus97]

Mine too, took ages to edit

[@stickguy9109]

@@Josephus97 And it was worth it. Gotta get that watch time am I right

[@startek119]

Put 20 square kilometers? My most recent game is over a million square kilometers. Before that I made a game that was an entire galaxy filled with procedural planets 600kilometers in radius alone.

[@yakanashe]

nice

[@Josephus97]

Why thank you

[@coloneljcd6041]

Nice system, but how did you deal with the jitter in your character when far away from the origin, did you use floating origin?

[@Josephus97]

I’ve found that’s not a problem for me but from my research it seems floating origin is the best way to get around that issue

[@coloneljcd6041]

@@Josephus97 Thanks!

[@aineian9171]

Mind making a tutorial showing some of us game lovers your coding process ??

[@Josephus97]

I've got plenty of dev logs up that talk about that! I'll try and go more in-depth with it in the future tho!

[@faythe03]

How can I learn to do something like this? especially the biome thing? There's some custom editor work involved there too, isn't it? Very interesting stuff, it's getting me hyped!

[@Josephus97]

Give Sebastian Lague's procedural generation tutorial series a watch :)

[@faythe03]

@@Josephus97 Thanks! I've added it to my playlist

[@beezel226]

Lol the searches

[@abulak3477]

2:43 can you name them? thx frog

[@maxit0x]

Hello friend, can you show how you make your bioma system? Thanks in advance

[@branidev]

cool, my question is this is one big scene? and where camera is pointing LOD is changing? I never make Open-World game so just exploring this topic

[@Josephus97]

It's all one scene and the direction the camera is facing doesn't affect anything - this is because Unity implements frustum culling by default :)

[@HallyVee]

did you use any of Unity's built in Terrain system or was this all custom? also the grass draw distance looks pretty high, is that in a shader or actual entities?

[@Josephus97]

It's entirely custom and the grass is drawn with indirect instanced rendering which allow me to draw loads with minimal performance impact :)

[@regulorosado1943]

Nice work!, Which tools do you use for version control ?

[@Josephus97]

GitHub and SourceTree :)

[@envixziv]

Cool video, im making a game inspired off far cry new dawn, i learned something

[@Xoremus72]

Kinda typical of game Game devs... Oh I don't know coding. but. Here is something I did that is so secretive, and takes time and know how in game development. Here I'll show you...But I wont share it with you. Oh hey Quad Trees...so simple a toddler could do it.... Gotta love it.

[@christianmccauley7340]

Here’s your chance to be a game dev too. It’s not like none of us have been in your position. You have the information you need, he gave an explanation of how quad trees work, why they’re useful, and different uses for the concept. Go do some research bro.

[@KerupuG]

Will you make this game free?

[@Josephus97]

I'm not sure, I'm thinking I'll probably sell on it steam for maybe £10 ($12)

[@mauriciogastonpirizgonzale5387]

01:28 Really? Nearly infinite size? So why does your map only have 20 km2? My city is relatively small and it is 200 km2, just the surface of my city. I've heard that Minecraft maps are as big in area as walking to Neptune, but that's procedural generation done on the fly, right? Is that generated map saved somewhere? Why then are today's maps still tiny? Like the Skyrim map which is a mockup of what should be the actual size of that region. Why aren't maps made like the one in Daggerfall anymore? Then I could create a defined map of 200 km2 but only load what is necessary at any given time?

[@Josephus97]

My statement is correct when based purely upon the system of quad trees (as is the topic of the video). There are, of course, other issues that would be run into, like time to compute, it wouldn't fun, storage/memory limitations, and way more

[@joeysipos]

This is nothing ;) My game game Glider Sim has 50km sq terrain! hehe

[@Josephus97]

Nice!

[@vldicc672]

hi i like your project and i don't mind helping you with creating 3d models for your game if you are interested please reply

[@Josephus97]

Thanks for the offer mate! I'm not really looking for any artists at the moment but will keep you in mind for the future :)

[@vldicc672]

@@Josephus97 ok thx

[@sammraz1990]

you sound like pyrocynical lol

[@Josephus97]

Been told I sound a bit like Wilbur Soot too haha

[@FlockersDesign]

Haha unity his landscapes are so un optimized and just a joke Make a landscape of 500x650 its already hits the limit wtf is this