I'm not aware of the portals in Eclipse being based on any movie. I took a look through the old concepts and notes and I couldn't find a single reference to a movie. As far as I know, it's an origina… (View Post)
The first one is an early version of the biome map, made very early on, before we had much idea of how big or complex we could make the world. A flow map is a texture map that is generated by terrain… (View Post)
Sorry, what I wrote there was kind of misleading. What I mean is that it was used to generate the initial terrain that we then built on top of. A flow map is a type of height map that models terrain … (View Post)
Streaming in terrain is one of the things we are working on improving, and probably will be right up to release. As you've probably noticed, the Lava Chamber happens to be the place where it's the wo… (View Post)