# Cell Specialisation and the Dimensional Shift

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**Category:** Gameplay
**Created:** [December 29, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/cell-specialisation-and-the-dimensional-shift/764 "2020-12-29T14:32:17Z")
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### Author: ![MirrorMonkey2](https://thrivedevforum-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/mirrormonkey2/32/859_2.png) [@MirrorMonkey2](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/MirrorMonkey2)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/cell-specialisation-and-the-dimensional-shift/764/6 "2021-01-04T09:16:20Z")

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> [@Buckly](#):
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> Assuming everything works out, I can imagine that the player’s creature might not have to go through any sort of “conversion” and instead just have a new dimension of placement in the editor. That is, instead of placing cells in a top-down editor to make a relatively flat organism, they will now be able to pan the camera completely around their organism, placing cells anywhere.

Interesting approach. This surely would avoid the challenge of having to 3Dify a 2D organism. A downside to this however would be that in every playthrough at some point all multicellular organism would be one cell thin pancakes, films if you will. This isn‘t quiet how it was on earth and it would be strange if it played out like this on every single planet.  
Additionally, as you already said, many body plans that worked in 2D would be thoroughly messed up by this. Imagine you gave your organism some sort of mouth indentation at the front so it could accumulate food inside. This would be rendered useless when entering 3D space in the way you proposed.

> [@hhyyrylainen](#):
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> The move to tissues and 3D would be around maybe 50 cells (due to performance reasons), at which point the player should _definitely_ have been making specialized cells.

Oh, in this case I missunderstood you earlier on. I thought you agreed that specialisation should occur only after the dimensional transition. Do you think the benefits of early cell specialisation outweigh the additional challenges we will face when working on the dimensional transition?  
Or do you disagree with my premise? Do you think the dimensional transition won‘t be any more difficult than it already is by having specialisation occur before the transition?

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