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Re:Notch on Euclideon: It's a scam by cheald on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @10:31PM (#2839596)
Procedurally generated assets take very little storage. They still take just as much memory to actually put into the scene graph and render.
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Re:Notch on Euclideon: It's a scam by skyfex on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @04:11AM (#2840254)
Not with ray casting of sparse voxel octrees, which is probably what they're doing. Depending on how the procedural generation work, you only need to generate that which you render.
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Re:Notch on Euclideon: It's a scam by wlievens on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @04:05AM (#2840241)
Not if your assets are functional, such as a procedurally generated heightmap. Then they take up next to no memory.

But you can't do that efficiently for a tree, I think.

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