Realistic Representation

As far as I know, Thrive will have an extraordinary degree of visual and structural (creature-wise) detail. I was wondering, could we add some paramatres to be randomised (with limits ofc) so that our hypothetical human won't look the same as their next-door neighbour, and such?
One other thing, will the actions of procreation of our hypothetical humans shown realistically or not?

PostScriptum: OFC the random paramaters should be applied before civ stages, when there are little organisms so you could easily reckognise some.

I guess, you mean make every organism look a tad bit different, with different features and such? Yeah, I think we should.

We'll have to talk to Bashi about this. I'm wondering if it's worth it in memory and processing power to have a few differentiations between each organism, or if we will just have the standard castes (see org editor CC if you don't know what castes are).

I was thinking this about plants earlier. No two trees look alike, and currently the OE uses a procedural dependant on a randomized "seed" number that determines where branches, limbs, leaves, flowers etc. will occur. This makes every plant of a species with a different seed have a different model. I'm thinking now that this might be way too complex, but considering the simplicitty of the procedural, it might not be. Again, I call upon the expertise of the head programmer for advice on this subject.

I am familiar with castes. Hmm, I has an idea... Wait for it... WAIT FOR IT...
Why not make "metacastes" (castes of castes), each with a slightly different appearance. OFC this should be done without the player finding out. This may be a bit more memory-intensive, but can it work?

If it's possible we should certainly include it. But would the differences of some creatures be hereditary like having a certain race of x creature?

Like we have different types of humans today : D

I thought that Auto-Evo would solve this problem.

Tenebrarum wrote:

I thought that Auto-Evo would solve this problem.

It really depends on what kind of Auto-evo we end up shipping with. probably will solve the problem, but maybe not.
And no to meta-castes. It's just too many derivatives.

We could set certain areas that have variation by 'painting' it on in the editor. We could have different 'paints': patterns (like on your fingers, if we have that much detail), part positioning (only a bit), colouration,
Size could also vary.

The way this would work in auto-evo is having certain areas randomly painted.

The Uteen wrote:

We could set certain areas that have variation by 'painting' it on in the editor. We could have different 'paints': patterns (like on your fingers, if we have that much detail), part positioning (only a bit), colouration,
Size could also vary.

The way this would work in auto-evo is having certain areas randomly painted.

I'd say yes, but most variation happens on the skeletal and muscular level.

Tenebrarum wrote:

The Uteen wrote:

We could set certain areas that have variation by 'painting' it on in the editor. We could have different 'paints': patterns (like on your fingers, if we have that much detail), part positioning (only a bit), colouration,
Size could also vary.

The way this would work in auto-evo is having certain areas randomly painted.

I'd say yes, but most variation happens on the skeletal and muscular level.

Vary strength and skeletal resistance a bit on each creature, then. You wouldn't normally see these things, so this area would probably be one of the easiest variations to do.

~sciocont wrote:

Tenebrarum wrote:

I thought that Auto-Evo would solve this problem.

It really depends on what kind of Auto-evo we end up shipping with. probably will solve the problem, but maybe not.
And no to meta-castes. It's just too many derivatives.

The THRIVE wiki provides a million problems with autoevo.