Goodbye Volition

[AxleStone_Uppa]

It hurts a bit that all of that is now essentially lost. Aside of documentation, there were some cool things that I wish would have seen the light of day outside of Volition.

Spoiler: Cool things

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Spline Based Procedural Modeling in “Agents of Mayhem” – Volition

www.volitiongames.com

Building Open Worlds Faster: the Volition Way

www.gdcvault.com

But even though it's gone, I'm left with something. Inspired by Volition, I started working on cool things of my own after the closure.

Spoiler

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Wow, interesting discover here on the agent of mayhem auto-build engine, looks very interesting. More game engines should adopt this faster build method in the future. that way we can get new maps and DLC`s quicker. if only the same thing where to be done with character models, where AI generates poly characters via what we text into the AI`s engine.

 

[Möyh Mäyh]

how did you get your hands on this bad boy

Sorry to get your hopes up like that, but what I meant is that I started making my own tools. I don't have the volition world editor.

and what do you plan on making?

Games, hopefully

 

[AxleStone_Uppa]

Sorry to get your hopes up like that, but what I meant is that I started making my own tools. I don't have the volition world editor.

oh ok, I understand.

 

[JustMitri]

It hurts a bit that all of that is now essentially lost. Aside of documentation, there were some cool things that I wish would have seen the light of day outside of Volition.

Spoiler: Cool things

View attachment 37039

Spline Based Procedural Modeling in “Agents of Mayhem” – Volition

www.volitiongames.com

Building Open Worlds Faster: the Volition Way

www.gdcvault.com

But even though it's gone, I'm left with something. Inspired by Volition, I started working on cool things of my own after the closure.

Spoiler

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F yeah!!! Bad ass. I remember dinking around with that prototype in 3dsMAX. These days, it seems a lot of people have gravitated towards Houdini to accomplish similar things.

The remaster broke SRTT more than it improved it, so giving SR1 or 2 the same treatment would be unwise.

Yeah, the content was built on a razor's edge of hardware performance. You'd have better luck rebuilding a 10' tall deck of cards with shinier playing cards.

 

[Möyh Mäyh]

F yeah!!! Bad ass. I remember dinking around with that prototype in 3dsMAX. These days, it seems a lot of people have gravitated towards Houdini to accomplish similar things.

Yeah, I've seen some amazing things things done with Houdini, like the Unreal Engine Matrix thing.

Spoiler

Also, finally getting some good looking corners on the intersections

 

[saintpablo]

guys I am so sad. this could have been great. i wonder if one day we will ever get an in depth of what happend to this reboot, what was the cause of such drastic change? this is so sad. there are no more open world crime games now outside of GTA

 

[saintpablo]

guys I am so sad. this could have been great. i wonder if one day we will ever get an in depth of what happend to this reboot, what was the cause of such drastic change? this is so sad. there are no more open world crime games now outside of GTA

I agree with him he seems smart and cool

 

[Thunderpig]

I agree with him he seems smart and cool

Did you just quote yourself?

 

[Beyonce]

Did you just quote yourself?

Let them cook

 

[tizerist]

guys I am so sad. this could have been great. i wonder if one day we will ever get an in depth of what happend to this reboot, what was the cause of such drastic change? this is so sad. there are no more open world crime games now outside of GTA

Yes it is indeed strange how this once all-conquering genre has been reduced to almost a single remaining IP. How did this happen? Did the dominance of GTA make everyone else give up?
For what it's worth, Mafia 4 has been confirmed, although its said to be years away still.