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Interestingly, there's a strategy game series called Europa Universalis, which moved from a 2D map to a 3D map quite a while ago... the reason being that the 2D
by vacri 11y ago
Interestingly, there's a strategy game series called Europa Universalis, which moved from a 2D map to a 3D map quite a while ago... the reason being that the 2D map was rendered by the CPU, whereas a 3D map could be shunted off to the GPU to deal with, freeing up precious CPU cycles for the game logic.
- majewsky 11y ago2D maps can be rendered by a GPU just fine. However, when you're doing the upgrade from CPU rendering to GPU rendering anyway, you likely want to have some returns, so they probably just went to 3D in the same step with few extra development cost.