How Populous 3 Faked Its Spherical Levels

A quick look at how and why the planets in Populous 3 looked like spheres even though they were secretly donuts.
Links:
🎧 Mathematical Objects podcast episode: aperiodical.co...
📺 Mathematical Objects on TH-cam: / aperiodical (Bear in mind it started late so doesn't have the recent episodes up yet)
🎮 Play Mathsteroids: www.mscroggs.c...
🌍 Play Populous The Beginning: www.gog.com/ga...
🎮 Planetary Annihilation (the truly-spherical planet game): planetaryannih...

[@nicholasdunlop649]

Look up the multiverse launcher , or "the beginning" if you are interested in playing it, or finding the multiplayer scene!!

[@predator3299]

just goes to show that faking it REALLY WELL is nearly as good as the real thing

[@pompombuuum3182]

The real fake, you mean?

[@NStripleseven]

No matter how weird or random the subject, these videos are always interesting.

[@AndrewTxp]

You say that, you haven't seen my notepad, there's some seriously niche shit in there.

[@nopenope952]

just found this guys content, love it

[@G7ennx]

I worked on this and all the other Populous games. I wasn't behind the fake sphere thing though, that was Alan Wright's work. I was a huge fan of the trick though, so much so that I wrote my own game that used the technique about ten years ago. Note this is a ten year old mobile game so not quite an update to modern tech! th-cam.com/video/CVxTaBJXNOM/w-d-xo.html

[@NonTwinBrothers]

Wait this *only* got 81 views?
Damn I thought it had more

[@AndrewTxp]

ikr?