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Yeah I think it has potential but the abuse of the term procedural for blatant marketing purposes is a bit overboard. Procedural down to the "atom" yet when you watch the trailer, you see the same old trees, rocks, 2-jet engine spaceships and an extremely Earth-like world..

The only thing that looked procedural are the seemingly random colors. Everything else looks like they modeled a bunch of 3D assets.

Maybe they're procedurally generating the terrain like Minecraft but they're definitely building the world from pre-modeled assets.



Actual trees are generated procedurally via their cells, and they look like the same old trees. That's how trees work.


And your point is? Are you suggesting that they're 'growing' a tree procedurally from the cellular level?


No, my point is that your complaint above doesn't make sense.

Trees are trees: if anything, the fact that you've correctly identified 'the same old trees' shows that the designer has done a good job in this respect.




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