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Started by the-pi-guy, Mar 13, 2016, 10:39 PM

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Narrator: everything did.
Well I did just waste a lot of time debugging only to realise their new set matrix function doesn't work correctly.  :P
It feels kinda weird where im at with things.  

Like in a lot of areas, I have a really good amount of experience. Then there's other stuff where I have an idea but I don't exactly know the best thing to do there.

Like one thing I wonder about is how do open world games manage their characters and other objects.

You could have a giant list of all characters.
Or you could have smaller lists of characters in your vicinity.  It's all about trade offs, but sometimes one way is better enough to never bother with the second way.

Or maybe there's some other super brilliant way to do that kind of thing.  
It's all about streaming that content in and out of memory. Essentially once you leave an area everything is deleted.

When you return, people and objects are loaded up again and placed based off time of day/weather.