Chris Roberts talks procedural planet generation and crafting realistic worlds for an FPS.

Procedural generation has been in vogue recently, thanks to titles like Minecraft and Starfield, but few know it was also used in the earliest games.

Starfield will include 1,000 fully explorable planets.Todd Howard has now told IGN more about the game's approach to procedural generation, what it offers, and assured us that players can ignore ...

Does Starfield use procedural generation? Yes, Starfield does use procedural generation for the 1000-plus planets you can explore, but each planet has hand-crafted elements.

Bethesda's use of procedural generation may be necessary given Starfield's scale, but doing so introduces as many risks as it does opportunities.

Here's everything you need to know about Starfield planets, including when they have life, how procedural generation works, and more.

This tech is essentially a procedural generation plugin for the Unreal and Unity game engines which allows developers to interactively and visually create "detailed and expansive" 3D worlds.