[Future Ideas]

Lumooja is correct. You need to to throw out this whole notion of regions or cells or whatever you want to call them. It just doesn't work out the way you want, and you can go see Oblivion for another live example.

Everything needs to be streamed. Josh you might want to look into how RAGE is doing its texture streaming as a point of inspiration (See: Oct-trees).

[The first toddler steps of AI]

Fantastic work Chris! Though I have -NO- idea how that code works.

[The Day After]

I'll probably stick to C++ where possible to be honest. That said, I really haven't invested much time into LUA. Maybe I should...

 

Also, congratulations on the upgrade. It must be incredibly satisfying to see that your work has paid off more that you envisioned.