How do you fit an entire city into 32 MB? Game Maker’s Toolkit’s deep dive into GTA III’s engine reveals how Rockstar Games squeezed a 4 km wide open world into the PlayStation 2 RAM. And the techniques turn out to be familiar to anyone working with #3D geospatial applications: #streaming, #LOD models, and #memory optimisation.
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How to fit a city into 32mb – Spatialists – geospatial news
How do you fit an entire city into 32 MB? Game Maker’s Toolkit’s deep dive into GTA III’s engine reveals how Rockstar Games squeezed a 4 km wide open world into the PlayStation 2 RAM. And the techniques turn out to be familiar to anyone working with #3D geospatial applications: #streaming, #LOD models, and #memory optimisation.









