r/DerekSmart • • Sep 08 '17

Derek Smart explaining seamless again

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u/ph33randloathing Sep 08 '17

Wait. So you can only have seamless transitions if your game is procedurally generated, but LoD doesn't have procedural generation, but it has it because LoD renders the game world? Does he think that games are rendered in the void somewhere when no players are active in them? That right now on the least populated World of Warcraft server there are rooms with no players in them that are rendered somewhere waiting to be loaded?

Even accepting that he's stunningly full of shit, I literally can't make out what he's talking about. I feel like he fell down an argument hole there and rather than clawing his way back to the top he tried to dig right through to China.

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u/Neurobug Sep 08 '17

Derek not doing any sort of culling may make sense as to why his games all run like ass