Doodads?

[gunnergoz]

I enjoyed the heck out of the idea of doodads. Will they be carried over? In 3D perhaps?

I must say I'm looking forward to new grass and doodad mods to come up with.

[Pvt. Ryan]

My guess is the new graphics will obviate the need for doodads as we know them. Maybe grass will be represented 1:1.

[YankeeDog]

Steve has already used the word "doodads" in reference to the new graphics, so they're there in some form or other.

Of course, they may not be the 2-D, cardboard cutout-type object we know from CMX1. . . but broadly speaking, judging from his comments in the thread about terrain and buildings, graphical eye-candy objects that meant to abstractly represent tufts of grass, rocks, furniture, etc. are in there somewhere.

Indeed as Pvt. Ryan implies, it's very difficult to imagine a 3-D engine without "doodads" in some form or other -- otherwise, you'd have to actually render every rock, weed and bush in 3-D, which would be *extremely* difficult to render. . . but advances in graphics rendering technology, such a bump mapping, etc. may allow some things, such as grass, to be rendered without "doodads" per se.

Cheers,

YD

[JonS]

Building internals, for example, will be doodads from what I can tell.

[WindyCity]

Originally posted by Pvt. Ryan:

My guess is the new graphics will obviate the need for doodads as we know them. Maybe grass will be represented 1:1.

I think Steve thouched on the subject of doodads in the "A little bit about buildings" thread.

[Cull]

Originally posted by WindyCity:

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My guess is the new graphics will obviate the need for doodads as we know them. Maybe grass will be represented 1:1.

I think Steve thouched on the subject of doodads in the "A little bit about buildings" thread. </font>