POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Northern Tamriel : Re: Northern Tamriel Server Time
30 Jul 2024 08:29:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Northern Tamriel  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 20 Apr 2012 03:07:48
Message: <4f910b44$1@news.povray.org>
Le 19/04/2012 23:23, Tim Cook a écrit :
> On 2012-04-19 15:52, Stephen wrote:
>> Oh! real data. Where is the island to the north that shows up when you
>> google it?
> 
> Further interestingness; the terrain data that's in Skyrim is quite
> noticably distorted from the maps derived from the previous games.
> Deliberate, indicating passage of time and geological upheaval,
> inaccurate mapmaking on the part of residents of Tamriel, or accident or
> sloppiness on the part of the developers?  Hmm...
> 

Or different projection/mapping of the world, maybe due to a change in
the engine.

You said "distorted", but did they put a cascade where previously there
would have been a plain ? (in term of adjacency, not coordinates, If
previously a house was on top of hill near a forest, is that forest
still around or has the house been replaced by a gigantic snail of stone ?


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