Are those created the exact same way? Like, you haven’t done these missions in a while and it spawns them in?ĭR: Yeah, exactly those are also a part of the encounter manager. It’ll try to make encounters that you haven’t seen in a while happen close to you-not in your face, but close by so you can hear them and kind of be like, “Hey, what’s going on? I wanna see what’s happening.”ĬGM: I noticed in the game there were some random missions that you had to go on.

How do you keep track of all those assets at one time? Is it just each aspect of the world only rendering where you are? Or how does it keep track of everything?ĭR: We have a global manager that manages our encounters in the open world, it’s properly named the encounter manager, and that manager will look at where you are, which region, what type of assets should it spawn based on that, what type of encounters it’ll present to you, and it’ll try to make things interesting. So if you play Far Cry Primal, you’ll see that there’s a lot more animals running around there’s a lot more predators and there’s a lot more NPCs running around the open world.ĬGM: Now I’m noticing that, as you say, the open world has a lot of things going on. One of the big things we did early on for Far Cry Primal was to optimize our rendering code and our engine code, just to bring much more density in our foliage and density in our biomes and our forests, but also to bring almost double the amount of NPCs that you can see within the same loading region. CGM: So what were some of the technical challenges you had when working on Far Cry Primal ? Did the engine give you all the tools you needed? Did you have to expand on it?ĭR: Every game we make will always require certain specific tools based on where we’re bringing the player.

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