I just thought this was a good gamer joke, it really happened:

Two guys were talking on the phone about a game developement project that one of them was trying to make. The one trying to make the game asks the other,

"How do you make a map?"
"Well, I've heard of this program called radiant..."
"Yah, I tried that, it was too hard"
"Did you try Blender?"
"I couldn't figure that out either. Hey, whats a bitMAP?"
"Oh, sure. That would work"
"Should I use radiant for that?"
"No, MSpaint is just as good for that"
"that's microsoft paint, right"
"yah, so, you can go make your bitmap now"
"Ok, I can't wait to put it in my game"

I would have a hard time believing that if I were you, but he actually made it, and bragged at how good he was at mapping the next day in school, when he saved an MSpaint file as a .bmp

Good one .

lol everyone knows you use portable network graphics so people can download it first...

DUH!

How the hell did he think maps were made? By drawing them? Is he really that stupid? Maybe in the future, like 100-1000 years or so it will be possible.

(I'm not ruling it out as drawings can be scanned and get a 3D representation. But with MSPaint, that will never happen )

well... what about megatextures? well I guess you still have to model the landscape...

(for those of you who don't know, megatextures are basically a giant texture that is applied to the landscape of a map. It's great for exceedingly large outdoor maps. It is used in the game Enemy Territory: Quake Wars)

[TSA] Psychiccyberfreak wrote:well... what about megatextures? well I guess you still have to model the landscape...

Like the name suggests: it's just a texture. You still have to create some model to put it on.

KadaverJack wrote:

[TSA] Psychiccyberfreak wrote:well... what about megatextures? well I guess you still have to model the landscape...

Like the name suggests: it's just a texture. You still have to create some model to put it on.

Yup, I know a couple of games that uses it. They say it's the future and that this is much better. I saw a movie of a game (dunno which) where they showed how you could edit this whole texture by placing rocks, dirt, road etc. and it would blend in. Was really cool.