Hi all, I am not a modder. I am a professional forester, and a fan of these games. A colleague of mine recently put local LiDAR point cloud data in a gaming engine and allowed his avatar to walk around the 3D rendering of the local forest. I thought this was cool and could maybe be used to create a training atmosphere for forestry students to learn forest measurements. Then I realized that it did not have to be a real forest, and that probably most of the work to do that could be adapted from Warband.
The basic idea is that instead of equipping a weapon, you would equip a specific forestry tool to measure an in game tree. Diameter tapes, angle gauge for tree height, reel tapes for creating the circular plots, etc. It could even escalate to mimic regular game play where instead of "quests" you're given assignments or jobs as a consulting forester.
Does anyone have any input or interest in a project like this? I am curious the cost and feasibility. You would never sell a million copies of this but it could be made mandatory for students like they do for textbooks, and there could be grant funding.
The basic idea is that instead of equipping a weapon, you would equip a specific forestry tool to measure an in game tree. Diameter tapes, angle gauge for tree height, reel tapes for creating the circular plots, etc. It could even escalate to mimic regular game play where instead of "quests" you're given assignments or jobs as a consulting forester.
Does anyone have any input or interest in a project like this? I am curious the cost and feasibility. You would never sell a million copies of this but it could be made mandatory for students like they do for textbooks, and there could be grant funding.
