Star Citizen does the textures in Substance Designer, I would guess they're included in the game files and not regenerated at runtime. I believe in addition to

Star Citizen does the textures in Substance Designer, I would guess they're included in the game files and not regenerated at runtime. I believe in addition to the terrain height/color maps, they generate textures that feed into object scattering so that rocks/trees/etc can be designed into the environments by the artists, but regenerated clientside to avoid needing to store millions of rock locations. The low detail "from space" version used to be painted separately and then blend into the ground detail as you approach, but I believe the space view and the ground ecosystem mapping come off of the same map now. EDIT: here's the video I'm remembering from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfCc_aDNsAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfCc_aDNsAw Whatever you think of the future prospects of the project, it's certainly technically interesting to keep an eye on