"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

Kenneth, this is coming along really well!

I think Bill Pragnell already mentioned adding a mechanism by which to cluster
groups of similar-sized buildings - if you use a color-coded map to do something
like that, you could detail things like high-rises, small residential houses,
shopping areas with large parking lots, etc - but you could also then add in
landscape features like trees, rivers, parks, etc.

And just to stretch the imagination - I wonder if you could use such a scheme to
vary the atmosphere.

I'm always interested in your approach to handling this - and I'me sure new
users would be interested in seeing some of the magic behind making something
like this work, and others would find it easier to solve problems / suggest
improvements if they had an idea of what your [pseudo]code is.


How large can you make this?
This almost begs one to take on the challenge of a "world-building" scene like a
video game such as minecraft, etc.
(I have no idea how so much gets generated and handled with just a tablet or
cell phone)
I could envision adding a maze-solving algorithm to guide the camera along the
streets, and doing a very long fly-through animation to just show that it can
keep going, and going, and going...

Along those lines, perhaps add in "under construction" as a building type.

User "Architype" has his wonderful historic-style architectures --- I could
envision an interesting scene where the farther along in the animation one goes,
the more modern the architecture gets   :O

Maybe think about doing an old / odd building or two to serve as theaters /
museums / concert halls, etc.

This is really coming along spectacularly :)  I'm very glad you've been able to
make so much excellent progress and work out so many things on your to-do list.

Thanks for sharing!

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