Worlds
Describe a landscape as a stack of steps and the engine builds the same terrain every time, with collision and navigation included. Grow forests over it, run rivers through it, and surround it with an ocean that has weather.
A sea that goes from calm swell to a gale, with foam, spray off breaking crests, sheltered harbors and waves running up the shore. Floating objects ride the real waves, and replays give the same result. Available in the high-definition renderer.
Describe a landscape as a stack of steps (shape, noise, erosion that carves real valleys, flattened pads, shorelines) and the engine builds the same terrain every time. Collision and navigation come with it. Materials that put rock on cliffs and snow up high arrive in the next release.
Shipped in v0.6.0Grow trees and shrubs from recipes and scatter them over the terrain. Grass and wildflowers move in the wind.
Shipped in v0.6.0Rivers and lakes form from the terrain's own drainage, and floating objects are carried downstream. Several fresh-water looks are built in. Drawn in the high-definition renderer.
Shipped in v0.6.0Paint or erase plants with a brush, and draw thousands as one instanced object, each with a stable identity. Tested with a million instances.
Coming in next releaseGenerate whole terrains from a few words, starting from real height data.
Being built nowGenerate buildings and small settlements from a recipe, ready to walk through.
Being built nowLarge maps load in pieces around the player, and pathfinding keeps working across them.
Planned next