Friday 2010-07-09 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[reflected]

Hmmm...the terrain looks very bright indeed, as if it was "Storm of War: Battle for Middle Earth"

Then again, it might be totally realistic. Unfortunately, I'm not British. Can anyone from the Misty Albion tell me how close this is to reality?

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by reflected

Hmmm...the terrain looks very bright indeed, as if it was "Storm of War: Battle for Middle Earth"

Then again, it might be totally realistic. Unfortunately, I'm not British. Can anyone from the Misty Albion tell me how close this is to reality?

Hey mate It's not close to how it would have looked during the BoB. I don't even think that these colours are that apparent in the wetter seasons here in Blighty...



something like this may be closer, but even then the greens may be a bit too lush

[PeterPanPan]

Well, I live in the south east of England, and here's what I can see from my window right now.

We have had very little rain lately, and it's been pretty hot, much like the summer of 1940. The garden on the left sees a lot of activity (kids, not Spits) and is not watered, much like a grass airfield 70 years ago. Looks pretty yellow to me.

The garden on the right has no kids and is watered all the time.

I'm guessing the one on the left is more realistic for 1940 airfield grass. Did people water their gardens in 1940? No idea. Does someone know?

Oh ... not saying which is my garden!!

PPanPan

[reflected]

They say "The neighbour's grass is always greener" so yours must be the one on the left

The in-game shots look a bit on the mynth green side compared to what Philip.Ed posted - me thinks

[PeterPanPan]

Originally Posted by reflected

They say "The neighbour's grass is always greener" so yours must be the one on the left

Darn it, how did you guess?!

PPanPan

[zapatista]

that latest picture from peterpan exactly illustrates my point, one garden might be wattered during drought (and its grass is therefore much greener), but it makes absolutely no difference to the trees and their foliage color on either side, those are exactly the same

disclaimer: these are oleg wip shots we are talking about, with him repeatedly stating colors and textures are not final

[philip.ed]

Well, I was talking about grass; not trees so my fact stands

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Well, I was talking about grass; not trees so my fact stands

what still stands is your confusion

Originally Posted by zapatista

i hope you were referring to the sky when you said the colour range was right, not the scenery

in the most recent screenshots with the low flying cluster of german aircraft over Brittan, the colour of trees and scrubs (and their spacing), looks to me more like the french maquis in a long bleaching summer, then the lush english vegetation in southern england

that was my original comment, to which leggit replied he disagreed by saying

Originally Posted by leggit

You "remember" southern Britain as lush and green yes it can be, right now because we haven't had any rain in a few weeks its looking rather dry and sunburnt. the grass is all yellow and burnt etc. my point is what you think something should look like and what would be a more realistic depicition are sometimes very different.

to which you are brightly chirping in

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Ditto, lived in Kent all my life, and besides from some of the evergreens and areas where there may be more precipitation, leggit is spot on. I mean, we've had really hot weather recently, and then the other day it rains and there's an absence of sunlight and bingo, the grass is already greener

so no, you were in fact telling me i was wrong in my suggestions for color improvements for trees and shrubs, and you were specifically commenting to ALL vegetation (except your "evergreens") and grass (as if that is what i had posted), and as you can see my original statement was never about grass at all (but trees and shrubs)



in consolation, may i present you with a shrubbery from the knights who say NI, NI, NI !!!

[philip.ed]

i was still referring to grass there with the added persepctive that evergrees add a lot of colour to the otherwise dry environment.
SImple misunderstanding here, as I know what I am talking about!

[zapatista]

all light hearted banter aside, in the latest screenshots this week the trees and shrubs (hedges etc) have now gone a much darker green (from the bleached and very light look we had last week), to dark i'd say in my humble opinion. looks now more like central europe, than the fair land of brits

still, since obviously oleg and Co can adjust this fairly quickly and easily "on the fly" (from one week to the next), i hope they take some of the constructive suggestions in consideration and look at some of the recent pictures posted for the "range of green" that is more typical in southern england. during the 6 yrs i lived in kent, i regularly traveled to northern france, belgium and holland. and the lush greens of england always stood out to me as having a very different "feel" and atmosphere compared to the vegetation in the neighboring countries. being able to get that "roughly right" in the colors and tones for BoB will do a lot to immersion and "suspending disbelief".

i am no photographer or digital grafix artist, but shouldnt it be possible to use some digital photographs of english scenery in a gfx program and then be able to exactly get the RGB values for the colors in the image ? doing that on a bunch of good digital images of english vegetation images should then be able to get a "color range" for the greens for different tree types, hedges, various shrubs, and grasses (the farm fields in the recent images looked pretty good to me, its the "greens" that didnt sem to represent england so far, to me at least)

hope all this is seen as the constructive feedback it is intended as