Impressive Procedurally Generated Forests
While I am not really an active gamer, I keep an eye on the state of gaming technology, as well as computer graphics in general. (I wrote about MMOGs earlier.) I have never played any Elder Scrolls games, but their new game, called Oblivion, looks impressive. I watched some preview movies detailing the game’s AI engine and procedurally generated forests, both of which look ambitious and well done. I assume they’re using Hidden Markov Models for the forest generation and weather. I’ll be writing more about the state of game AI soon.