Friday 2010-06-17 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[phoenix1963]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

So Oleg, how are colours going to be modelled for the fields. Is the scenary going to be fluent, in the sense that if I drove down any of the roads, there wouldn't be trees in the roads or the fields will all fit together well?

Also, I know the trees are all WIP but look at this:


focus on the bottom right-hand corner of the shot, at the hedges are clear. Also, notice the open space; the landscape is not at all cluttered

Actually, philip.ed's picture here is pretty accurate (maybe very slightly over saturated for the dustier greens of late summer). It's of somewhere in the Cotswolds rather than Kent, but no rapeseed in sight and more rolling elevations than most of Kent. It does show the importance of the hedgrows and contiguous woodland rather than individual trees.
Oleg's trees look better than I feared from last week's post, but they still look like silver birches with light foliage rather than the rich oaks & elms. Also they still don't merge together like RL, which makes the scenes look a little cartoony.
It's good to see so much progress.

56RAF_phoenix

[Jaws2002]

The water in the last two shots is gorgeous. Sea water can have many color and in many areas, when in the sunlight, is just beautiful blue like in your last two screenshots.
This just put to rest one of my very few concerns about SOW.

Bloody great work gents! Thank you.


It looks like the lakes on the Canadian Icefield Parkway I've seen few weeks ago:

[philip.ed]

Yes, in the shot I posted the trees quite look dense when together, whereas olegs look quite tall and spindly. It's hard to explain, as from an aerial view they'll look very similar, but down low it's more obvious. I think that, when down low, the trunk of the tree should be more obscured by the foliage. I know all of the work is WIP, but the shot that I posted does show how everything should be looking (the colour may be saturated, but Oleg's colours look more autumnal than they should)

[Oleg Maddox]

If you have this shot in RAW format of your Canon EOS REBEL T1i camera, then simply send it me and I will show more real colors, saturation and even small details of this picture.
then we will post it here in comparison

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

The water in the last two shots is gorgeous. Sea water can have many color and in many areas, when in the sunlight, is just beautiful blue like in your last two screenshots.
This just put to rest one of my very few concerns about SOW.

Bloody great work gents! Thank you.


It looks like the lakes on the Canadian Icefield Parkway I've seen few weeks ago: