Another good update from Planet Explorers Game Devs

Wistrel · Oct 21, 2013

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...6efbfb2e80a7c61176b&ref=backer_project_update

... Now, we're also adding in wind direction and grass reaction to people (and maybe ai). Another thing regarding flora efficiency is that we're cutting down on the types of flora that can be collected, this way, we can keep the types of flora (not counting grass/bush types) under 21 types within a 256X256m area, that will also help the ms (ms is milliseconds, which is how long it takes the cpu or gpu to process something, the less the better) greatly.

We've been trying to free up some milliseconds for a good reason, which is we're trying to pull off real time cubemapping and ambient lighting based off of that (which will take 3-5ms). This mostly came about because we need a better way to detect caves and compensate the lighting accordingly. With a real time cubemap, we can do exactly that, since we can detect if the entire area is dark or not. Tests for this so far have been promesing, but we shall see once we put this in game
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