I probably have already told about Infinity the quest for Earth, but anyway...
A guy (I don't remember his name because in the forum he is always I.A., InfinityAdmin) is programming a new MMO ambiented in our galaxy where you can explore, fight, trade, chat, or whatever you want.
A real galaxy is very big right? It has hundreds of billions of stars...
The thing that makes this game unique, though, is that the galaxy is composed by
400 BILLIONS STAR!!Each of them teorically freely visitable! A large number of this stars will have planets orbiting around it and, without any loading gap, you can freely make a little tour exploring the surface of the planet (and I want to tell you that all the planets, stars, moons, asteroids, ecc... have real sizes, real distances, and real orbits, where you can actually look them moving along them and rotating along their axis)!! We talk obout thausends of billions of objects....
How is it possible?? Just using procedural programming. Here there is a link to one topic of the game, that explain quite easly this king of programming, but firstly take a look at the game (the link is just a few line further down).
I want to remember that this game is still in developement and it will not be completed untill 2010 AT LEAST.
http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=75&topic=7426.0Here the link to the site:
http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=40Here i would like to add some stunning videos (at least in my opinion):
P.s. Whatch them in high quality where avaible, expecially the first.
procedural galaxy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0-lsyo28SUprocedural asteroid rings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8IwSt_mflQ&feature=relatedprocedural nebulas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk_AKkgzBP0&feature=relatedprocedural planet (moon):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BZNJOj3Sv0&feature=relatedWhat do you think about it??