I understand the 'world' and the 'locations' are all one field.

The way this works, is not what this topic is far. What this topic is for, is for discussing how the load screens (if any) will appear.

Some egs:
Turok on GC has the mission briefing in a small text paragraph on top of the mission settings image with a rotating Turok axe weapon in the corner.

silver on PC and Dreamcast, has the Silver logo and a animated sword (details I forget).

Or...alot of games these days don't even have load screens, but if the world will be on one entire plain, there have got to be long load times, so we need something to keep our gamers amused and not p*ssed off.

A solution would probably be to have a certain radius around the gamer constantly generated, but I haven't a clue any mroe what is going on.

This topic is to keep things moving, if not anything else.

Comment anyway...

...Temp, you sure that'll work? Call me stupid (because I am ^-^) but won't that make it slower?

loading during gameplay is definitely the best way to go. Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Goldeneye 007, and a few other games all used this technique.

will there be transitions between outside-inside movements? Won't we need to load then?

I may seem persistant but I still liek the idea...we just need the purge all possibilities so these convos and discussions/decisions/whatever can make life easier later on.

A smooth game is a happy game. Let's make a happy game. Would probably need a good processor and alotta mhz.

Yea, and at reduced prices, too =)

Haha, yes, let's make that clear =) But let's make sure an official "official" stamps it.

K there we go =) Whole topic wasn't totally necesary, really.