San Juan was intended to be the next redo, but I'm pushing it off for a bit. These capital towns are huge projects which take up almost the entire environment team, and I'd like to take a milestone or two break and go back and add in a lot of new swashbuckling/ship combat environments, and redo one of the starter towns. The Spanish, French, and British starting towns were created early on in the project, and aren't up to the look of what we've developed since (for example, Marsh Harbour is dramatically better).
Plus, I want to try out our new dual approach to town navigation, specifically, instancing/seamless. Right now, pretty much everything is instanced. I think that's a bad approach that we sort of dropped into because it was so necessary for the ships. We're going to redo one of the starting towns and use seamless when it makes sense (relatively small, high traffic areas) and instancing when it makes sense (much bigger, complex interiors that you don't go to as much).
Which town will we start with? I'm leaning towards Spanish, just because I'm feeling bad about not doing their capital next, but it could be French or British as well. All of them need love.
The good news for the Spanish is that it'll be the first capital city that incorporates this new design technique, and I think it'll be stronger for it.
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Originally Posted by stoindrae
That looks absolutely phenomenal!
San Juan eta?
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