Homestead Demo

The Homestead Demo, also known as Procedural Planets v2 was part of the CitizenCon 2016 presentation. It's goal was to show the progress of the procedural generation for Star Citizen.

Highlights
The demo shows the transition from space into the atmosphere of Leir III as well as atmospheric interefences and the landing on the surface. The "player's task" (model: Joaquim Steiger) was to search for distress signals on the planet.

It shows also an engagement between the Sand Nomads and the player. At the end of the demo, the player enters the deck of the crash landed Orpheus Horizon while a sandstorm raging over the wreck.

In the moment as a new group of Sand Nomads on dragonfly vehicles reappear, a gigantic sandworm (Valakkar) pierced from the bedrock to the surface, killing the Sand Nomads.

The demo ends with an fade out from the surface back into the orbit.

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdCFTF8j7yI

Trivia

 * Inspirations for the Homestead Demo were taken from Jakku (Star Wars Episode 7 ), Mad Max - Fury Road and Beyond Thunderdome.