| Creating a 3D house plan from scratch and adding textures and objects is a solved problem. The Sims was published 21 years ago, and it makes it quite easy for kids and even adults to build, decorate and furnish models of their own homes and families. See my other posting in this thread about "Towards a mixed reality intelligent campus". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27174053 Here's an even earlier pre-release version of The Sims that we released internally at EA in 1998 to The Sims Steering Committee, which convinced them to let us finish and release the game in 2000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC52jE60KjY&ab_channel=DonHo... That pre-release version is quite crude, with ugly graphics and a klunky user interface, but you can look at youtube videos of The Sims 4 to see how far the state of the art has advanced in the 23 years since that pre-release demo of The Sims 1. Here's a slightly more recent demo of the architectural editing tools, pie menus, and visual programming tools that I developed in The Sims 1 (this is the released version, but with the unreleased internal "Edith" object editing and "SimAntics" visual programming tools built in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-exdu4ETscs&ab_channel=DonHo... >The Sims, Pie Menus, Edith Editing, and SimAntics Visual Programming Demo. This is a demonstration of the pie menus, architectural editing tools, and Edith visual programming tools that I developed for The Sims with Will Wright at Maxis and Electronic Arts. Here's one of LGR's reviews of The Sims 4 from 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohwbklm3w_E&list=PLXtVXmQQAA... >LGR - The Sims 4 Review >Gameplay and overview of The Sims 4. What are the new features? How does it compare to The Sims 3? Is it worth buying? Questions, answers, snark! He's published many other reviews of the Sims 4 expansion and stuff packs, too: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbBZM9aUMsjH0ugWCCkcF... This one from 2014 focuses on build mode and the architectural editing tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PstU5SsEAX0&list=PLbBZM9aUMs... >LGR - The Sims 4 Build Mode Gameplay Revealed >Commentary on the latest gameplay from The Sims 4, showing the trailer footage for build mode. New scalability, wall options, movable rooms, and all that! |
What I am implying is that the total gain you get from fabricating, setting up and rendering a 3D model of a house plan is barely more than the one you get from a 2D version