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What is the maximum size terrain can TSE make?

by Vladimir Kavoun · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 07/31/2006 (6:45 pm) · 6 replies

Hi there ive purchased the TGE couple of weeks ago but as i was trolling through the forums i realized that tge cant make one large map and many speak of paging terrain. Before i get into coding id like to know the size of the maps TSE allows me to make. I found some people posting how they have maps about 500km by 500km. How large of a map can a make and how long will it take for the player to run through it?

Thanks
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Torque Owner Wysardry
#1
07/31/2006 (7:06 pm)
If I remember correctly, TSE allows maps larger than the size of the known universe... if you have enough disk space to store the data.

Andrew Kerr
#2
08/01/2006 (12:00 pm)
Search through Ben Garney's blog. He gave the largest theoretical size of terrain - and it was far bigger than the universe. You'd probably need a very large disk set to store it though ;).

Torque Owner Vladimir Kavoun
#3
08/01/2006 (2:47 pm)
Thank you guys ^^.

Torque Owner Matt Vitelli
#4
08/01/2006 (2:58 pm)
I believe the possibilities are endless. It's more the program. Terragen can export 4097x4097 at the most.

Torque Owner Ryan Dey (not Tom Watson)
#5
08/01/2006 (3:46 pm)
But you can then, of course, load in as many terrain blocks as you wish. I'm currently using 4 terrain blocks, each 1km square. I have plans of using as many as 40-50 blocks in a single mission, and everything I see indicates I could use infinite blocks (if I felt like processing that many).

Torque Owner Anton Bursch
#6
08/01/2006 (4:07 pm)
Isn't space infinite? isn't there always more? isn't there always less?

owwwwww...

now my head hurts...

wow, if you lived forever, you would still never get to see everything. sheesh. what a rip off.