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by gameswithgo 2080 days ago
for large "open world" games, you sometimes dupe things to lay out the data in memory to be near each other when the items are near each other in the world, so you can stream data in or chunk it in efficiently. If a player drives toward a city you have to be able to load all the buildings and mailboxes in without any pause. it isn't easy