Housewares

[Starmind]

New idea, although I believe other games have it allready.

Houseware constructions:
How would you like your house to have a comfortable bed, nice sofa, or at least a dinner table with chairs. Houseware constructions would be craftable items that sit in inventory until you "activate" them. Once activated, they would appear right in front of where you are standing, on the ground (only would work while you were within your own building on your plot) At this point you could rotate the item or otherwise orientate and slide it around until it was just where you wanted it (right next to the wall, or in front of the fireplace) Then you would click the "Activate" button on your build screen and the item would be permanently placed there. Would be similar to building the decorations, but would be placeable within the buildings, not just on empty space in the plot.

[AA0]

This was already being worked on, parts of it were done.. others not, it is a pretty big item to do, especially all the art needed.

[C`gan]

Oh, you mean furniture. I'm sorry to say, but that's been in the works for some time. The major snag has thus far been occlusion (when something passes in front of something so you can't see what's behind). The client currently has no system of handling occlusion, so it renders absolutely everything within viewing range. Sometimes, this can be really simple (say a field out in the middle of Genevia, nothing around), but other times can really lag your system (look at early days of Tazoon before modeling there was revamped and see how some people couldn't go there without crashing because it was too much data). Before the sale to EI, some of the occlusion programming had been underway. It's going to take quite a bit of coding to be worked so that chair you just placed inside the human large house doesn't have to load and be there the entire time you're within the view range of the house.

[AA0]

It wasn't so much the client not able to handle occulsion, at one point that was true but it was repaired, but now the graphics were not designed to allow it, some were fixed but most not. There is also the issue of loading all those items when you come into range, right now they'll still all load, even if the occulsion was correct.