They had no history, no chance to flourish. Born a failure to themselves, but a thing of wonder to their world.
--- Fun fact: there are exactly 2211 objects in this scene, five of which have adaptive tessellation+displacement on them. It required over 17gb of RAM, and surprisingly only a little over 3 hours to render.
P.S. I've played Slime Rancher recently (very pleasant and relaxing game - I recommend if you don't mind doing repetitive tasks inbetween exploring and adventuring), and I may have been inspired by its Ring Island. So heckin cool.
No clue, really. Maybe flow control, maybe to mix up whatever is going through them, or maybe just so they aren't a big ole endless blockade, in case of [insert one of the many circumstances in which this would help]. But one thing I know for sure: it looks cool as heck! :D
No clue, really. Maybe flow control, maybe to mix up whatever is going through them, or maybe just s
