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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.

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.

David wrote: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.

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