Editing Turbine Games Q&A/Dungeons/Q-13 (section)

{{Turbine Games Q&A
 |  Link = <nowiki>http://www.turbinegames.com/qa/view_questions.html?id=1777</nowiki>
 | Title = Non-portal dungeons do exist?
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{{Turbine Games Q&A Question
 |    Asked = 2000.11.08
 |   Player = Tuq'ad
 |    Title = Non-portal dungeons do exist?
 | Category = Dungeons
 | Question = Given that the landscape is described as a "flat sheet modified by height and texture".. how were the underground rooms created near Qal?<br /><br />I don't know if there is a name for them.. but there is a building leading down into the ground, usually populated with Lugians and Mountain Rats. This structure is extremely cool. Hard to duplicate?
 | Answered = 2000.11.08
 |      Dev = Stormwaltz
 |   Answer = Those underground rooms are part of an instantiation - that is, a single complex-architecture model placed on the landscape. They're really just houses placed partially under the plane of the ground.<br /><br />The problem with instantitations is, they can only be one land block cell in size without graphics sorting problems, and can ''never'' cross a landblock boundary. Cross a landblock in an instantiation, and you'll cause a server crash.<br /><br />So you can have a building that goes down forever, but it would have to fit into rather small dimensions, and would be "expensive" to model and render in-engine.
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