An Integrated Model of the Environment
Must preserve real world properties critical to predicting player and equipment performance
Must be realistic and be …
- A best-approximation of a specific or typical place and time
- Physically consistent:
- Rivers: flow downhill
- Terrain, atmosphere, ocean, and space: content agree
- Roads: connected and consistently attributed
- Cuts, fills, obstacles: appropriate to engineering practices
- Structures: attached and appropriately aligned
Note: Maps are also approximations of the real world, but requirements are different …
- Inaccuracies are accounted for through visual interpretation
- Synthetic Forces can’t adjust ... inconsistent representation causes errors