It's neat to be able to walk through that kind of experience. Going into battle, these characters are dialoguing during the fights, and you have these moments where it's really cool to feel you're in a sibling situation, or later where you're thinking, "I don't wanna do what dad tells me to do." We're trying to be place these characters in the cockpits. We go into the lives of our characters: we have a father-son story that we tell, we have a brother and a sister story. In our story, it's about where do your loyalties lie, at home with your family or with your country? It's a good story, because it tests the character. That's an extreme example, but when you go away from the high-level History Channel version you get a more interesting story. Y'know, all the stuff that takes us into the lives of the characters. Think of the difference between watching the History Channel where it's all about Rommell and Patton, or instead watching Saving Private Ryan, where it's all about taking the girl up the barn, and how when they were kids they played together and oh, the roses. Really the top of the list was to tell a story in the single-player campaign that has a focus on the characters. With neural net AI, you run a hundred thousand simulations, and you build a database of tendencies - it can bring a more natural and a smarter opponent to the AI. The other thing we've added is a little bit of neural net AI as well as the handcrafted AI we already use.
So it's a wonderful system for moving hundreds of units. You provide one graph, one destination on a map that will take every unit from that location to that point. It's also got a brand new lighting model - we use a global illumination model, we use a point-cloud system, all-new shadowing, all-new water, new pathfinding system. This game we've improved that so that we push the geometry over, and we leave it there. It actually gobbled up a lot of the system performance, made the game require a pretty beefy system. The old one used a dynamically tessallating model so that as you zoomed in and out there were different levels of triangle density and then the CPU had to push that over the bus to the GPU.
We, on the other hand, completely rewrote the rendering engine. Using a text editor program edit the 'game.pref' file in the current user's directory (in Windows XP it is 'Local SettingsApplication DataGas Powered GamesSupremeCommander'.See when people sequel games, they tend to give it a paint job, add a little of this, a little of that. The following procedure involves editing a game file so it is advised that you create a backup copy of the file before proceeding.
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