it's not the same. 3d games use polygons and shaders and whatnot. you can optimize things much easier in that space since it's a lot more computational. 3d tiling is literally a bunch of png files being streamed down.

[–] Decq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Yes, just like msfs does. They still use polygons and shaders.. Polygons that make up the terrain and more and shaders that sample png tiles as textures... Msfs really does not do anything different than other games, outside of streaming in the assets instead of pre-installing them. Not sure why people think it's any different.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Other games store those png tiles locally. Which, sure, increases the installed size of the game. Storage is cheap though, might as well use it right? Like, even if this article is off by an order of magnitude, 8Gb/h is still a ton of data to stream just to play a video game. If other games also do that, that's news to me. But i was under the impression that games try to be as efficient as possible when it comes to networking. Storing all your texture tiles in the cloud and making your clients download and redownload them seems the opposite of efficient, or at least that they optimized for the wrong thing.

[–] AlotOfReading@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

A highly compressed, global base map at 1m resolution is somewhere on the order of 10TB. MSFS is probably using higher resolution commercial imagery, and that's just the basemap textures, most of which you'll never see.

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