Black Shades Infinite City

[jazz]

I was wondering if anyone new the technical details on actually how the city is implemented. I'm sure a pseudo random generator is used. I'm interested in how the infinite effect is implemented.

Thanks.

[David]

The city generation in Black Shades was actually very simple: it's just a very large grid of equally sized block models. There are several different kinds of block models which are chosen (pseudo)randomly, and also rotated randomly using 90-degree intervals.

[jazz]

The city generation in Black Shades was actually very simple: it's just a very large grid of equally sized block models. There are several different kinds of block models which are chosen (pseudo)randomly, and also rotated randomly using 90-degree intervals.

Ah, so the city is a finite grid. Thought I read on a site that city was generating geometry on the fly in realtime. Thanks for the clear up. Great game btw.

[tomascokis]

I'm pretty sure the map is actually infinite, as you move along it just loads more models.