can someone tell me how oblivion has such good fr with so many trees,huge seemingly endless world & so many npc ais running around???
im asking from a developer point of view since im (trying) to make my own 3d rpg sort of like morrowind.is it very good 3d engine? good coding??
im using dark basic pro & my fr really svcks! im starting 2 think its the 3d engine im using. can anyone give me ideas,facts on this??
id really love it if a developer could answer this post. plz
tks!

Er, technically? I'd put Oblivion pretty low on the "performance" ladder. It's never been Bethesda's strong point.

Don't quote me on this but IIRC the long+detailed line of sight is achieved not by rendering everything you see, but by using a 2D 'painting' of things you are too far to interact with. < could be me remembering some mod I used to make more detailed LOS. Also less detail is given to far away objects, which is the reason tree leaves do what they do as you walk through a forest.


And to the poster above, Oblivion ran very smoothly for me even with many many many many mods.

It's the engine, language, and coding. If you want to make something comparable to Oblivion you'd better start by learning C++, licensing a decent 3d engine and learning its APIs, and dedicating yourself to programming 24/7 for the next several years. Seriously, think about it: if it took nearly 40 people working everyday for several years to crank out Oblivion it's not something a single individual can reasonably do. If a single person could make a game like Oblivion, then you would see hundreds of self-published titles out there and there would be no need of large development studios.

I'm sorry to burst your bubble but Dark Basic isn't going get you a game like Oblivion on today's hardware.

well i know i cant make another oblivion. i just wonder how they have such a huge world? crysis 2 is the same way! it looks almost like no end of there world.dam i wish i knew there secrets! must be a much better 3d engine.


off topic but i heard beth is going 2 make tes 5 just after fallout 3. that svcks! so release date of ??? 2015??

Unknown, but you can find MUCH speculation in this thread and its predecessors.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1134863-official-tesv-speculation-thread-74/