Graphics Rewrite and navigation?

[ATAG_Doc]

That we already knew. But the weather isn't turned on yet. For MP I speak.

[Ploughman]

To be fair, most mature hedgerows in England are populated by trees. What's unrealistic about the sims depiction of the English countryside is the density and proximity of trees to road, rail and hedge. The sim depicts trees along roads as if they were the leafy avenued approache to a great house, but in reality a country road would have the trees tight onto the road edge with boughs overlapping over head.

[Dano]

Indeed, a great many roads would be almost, if not completely hidden until you were on top of them.

[Ailantd]

What bothers me the most with roads is that secondary texture roads, even sand roads, are wider and detailed from altitude than main ones. Also that roads don´t cut texture mapping behind them so the integration with standard terrain features is so poor. For me this looks so ugly that I usually turn roads off to have a better looking landscape.

[priller26]

If you have your roads or grass set ON will it reduce your frame rate ONLY when you are low enough to see them, or globally? Meaning, if my grass and roads are set to on, and I'm flying very high or over water, will it reduce my frame rates?

[Chivas]

The hedgerows don't have to be modeled to cover the roads. From a distant where you see parallel hedgerows you would know there could be a road or railroad there at times. Single hedgerows could at time indicate only the edge of a field. I like navigating to the target at treetop level so a mixture of trees and hedgerows would make navigation much easier. I realize that this isn't a priority, and is something that could be done at a later date by the community.

[ATAG_Doc]

Something like this??

[Ploughman]

It's been a while but the last time I flew over Kent at, I'm guessing, 20K, the most obvious feature, the very thing Chivas is referring to in terms of a navigational aid, was the line of the old Roman road from the coast (Deal?), through Canterbury, to London. It stood out like a sore thumb. It is the sort of thing that's missing from CloD.

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Ploughman

It's been a while but the last time I flew over Kent at, I'm guessing, 20K, the most obvious feature, the very thing Chivas is referring to in terms of a navigational aid, was the line of the old Roman road from the coast (Deal?), through Canterbury, to London. It stood out like a sore thumb. It is the sort of thing that's missing from CloD.

Hythe to Canterbury, its called Stone street (which is almost certainly what you saw), which is a subsidiary of Watling Street which goes from Richbourgh to the Old Kent road.

[kendo65]

I would also expect that we'd get a performance boost from replacing what could be a fairly significant proportion of the current tree coverage with hedgerows. Compared to most photos I've seen the current tree density seems excessive anyway.

Unfortunately I don't think anything is going to happen on this front. Most people aren't that interested and the devs have bigger tasks to tackle.

I hope it may be possible in future with release of SDK to maybe have some community tweaking of the map, but I recall Oleg/Luthier saying that they would keep the main map locked but allow people to mod the smaller maps or create their own small maps.