Poll - COD Terrain: Your Opinion - Page 2

ATAG_Dutch · #11 07-12-2011, 03:28 PM

Generally Happy, but a little worried that 'improvements' will spoil that early morning/late evening atmosphere, which I still think is awesome.
Darker trees, ever so slightly toned down fields and the widely discussed and ever so English hedgerows would render me a happy bunny. But don't spoil anything whilst you're at it.
I'd also like to see the scattered individual trees disappear as you lower the settings rather than the blanket 'less everywhere' as it is now. As it is now, you lower the settings and have dark green patches on the ground with a few sparse trees. Don't know if this is possible, obviously, but it would be nice.

LoBiSoMeM · #12 07-12-2011, 03:57 PM

I always like the terrain visuals, only waiting for even more optimization regards performance, some tweak in colours and the final weather system, because these "placeholders" clounds are really bad optimized... And the final water too, of course!

If all this was will be Dx11 finally, my world will be perfect...

Jatta Raso · #13 07-12-2011, 03:59 PM

the terrain is good, meaning not very good and far from excellent

i applause this initiative; i also take notice the vast majority seems to agree it needs improvement; after all it's just what has been mentioned (and trolled) to death already. let's hope this result sheds some light to the illuminated so the silly trend of reclaiming all reason to one side may end... and mature productive discussion may finally happen instead of the forum police flamefest that has been going last few days. cheers to the community

p.s. - last day i went online testing the ground attack on repka 2, glad to find out the prop pitch working gradually instead of 2 fixed positions, on Spit mkII; for firts time i had a blast managing my revs, speed and temps, watching my alt etc.. too bad the sound went off after 10min and had to do without... well at least i had some taste of fun. haven't tried the Spit mk I yet, but its FM was broken at the time, let's see today.

LoBiSoMeM · #14 07-12-2011, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Jatta Raso

the terrain is good, meaning not very good and far from excellent

Well, some have real "orgasms" with RoF terrain, some dislike SpeedTrees, but I laught when look at the "spinning trees" of RoF graphic engine.. ^^

All graphics engines have some flaws. The big ones in CloD today are all "placeholders", minor tweaks in visual and optimization problems. All the basics are there to a lot of evolution.

JG52Uther · #15 07-12-2011, 04:11 PM

The terrain looks nothing like England. Colours are totally wrong and tree's are just weird in colour and placement.I thought I was buying a Battle of Britain sim, not Battle of Fantasy Land...
I picked option 3 though, because the terrain doesn't stop me playing,all the other problems have.
And its no good installing mods to make it look better,because online that will probably result in a VAC ban.

150GCT_Veltro · #16 07-12-2011, 04:11 PM

Thank for the pool, good idea.

Jatta Raso · #17 07-12-2011, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by LoBiSoMeM

Well, some have real "orgasms" with RoF terrain, some dislike SpeedTrees, but I laught when look at the "spinning trees" of RoF graphic engine.. ^^

All graphics engines have some flaws. The big ones in CloD today are all "placeholders", minor tweaks in visual and optimization problems. All the basics are there to a lot of evolution.

i don't share same amount of optimism due to several reasons but we'll see

furbs · #18 07-12-2011, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by LoBiSoMeM View Post
Well, some have real "orgasms" with RoF terrain, some dislike SpeedTrees, but I laught when look at the "spinning trees" of RoF graphic engine.. ^^

All graphics engines have some flaws. The big ones in CloD today are all "placeholders", minor tweaks in visual and optimization problems. All the basics are there to a lot of evolution.

Placeholders? To be fair, you just made that up.

LoBiSoMeM · #19 07-12-2011, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by furbs

Placeholders? To be fair, you just made that up.

Water and clounds are stated as "placeholders" by dev team a lot of times.

Mysticpuma · #20 07-12-2011, 05:38 PM

I was hoping to have an option 5 in the list as I voted for Option 4 due to the fact there is such a short draw/texture fill distance that everything can be seen being drawn or appearing like popcorn as you fly over the ground.

I could probably live with the non-UK landscape if this was fixed or could be worked on.

Surely in this day and age some use of AF could be used, or even the dreaded (but useful) smog/haze/UV effect to hide the pop-ups?

I don't understand why AF can't be used to blend the object together and then 'bleed' them into view rather than popping them up?

Anyway, Voted 4, but would go 2 if the pop-up could be fixed.

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View Poll Results: How happy are you with the current state of COD terrain?
Very Happy - the terrain is currently excellent and requires little or no change	16	6.37%
Generally Happy - the terrain is good, but there is room for improvement	140	55.78%
Generally Unhappy - the terrain is poor, and requires significant work to be done	62	24.70%
Very Unhappy - the terrain is so bad that it makes me reluctant to fly a mission	33	13.15%
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