Friday 2010-07-16 Dev. update and Discussions about the update ONLY!

I have to say that im not feeling much love for the landscape that Ive seen so far, to me it looks like a water colour painting, i would like to see a comparison screenshot between WOP and SOW landscape i seem to remember Oleg mentioning that he may do this. Also I honestly think that the Il2 trees look better although i appreciate that it is all still WIP's. The detail on the aircraft is incredible though and the water looks stunning.

Same for me.

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Planes are great
Water is good already


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The ground textures look like low resolution and not good at all.
The trees look too bad, too.
fire too bright on its hottest part

[furbs]

i agree tree...but i just hoping we havnt seen the landscape in its full glory yet...and when it all comes together it will look stunning.

luthier...any chance of seeing a short vid of flames and smoke?...im sure it would put lots of peoples mind at rest.

[Tbag]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

I have to say that im not feeling much love for the landscape that Ive seen so far, to me it looks like a water colour painting, i would like to see a comparison screenshot between WOP and SOW landscape i seem to remember Oleg mentioning that he may do this. Also I honestly think that the Il2 trees look better although i appreciate that it is all still WIP's. The detail on the aircraft is incredible though and the water looks stunning.

I think we've seen much better landscape shots than those in recent updates already:

Quote: I think we've seen much better landscape shots than those in recent updates already:


yeah a bit better.

But especially the trees (shape and) colour look much nicer than in the latest updates.

[furbs]

Originally Posted by Tbag

I think we've seen much better landscape shots than those in recent updates already:

yep...those trees look much better...so i wonder why they dont look as good in the last few updates?

anyone have a idea?

[=XIII=Shea]

IMHO people should pass judgement until we see an actual gameplay video,showing smoke,fire,ground detail,I think Oleg and the team know what they are doing

[David603]

Originally Posted by furbs

yep...those trees look much better...so i wonder why they dont look as good in the last few updates?

anyone have a idea?

Didn't Oleg switch from using trees that were made by his own team to using trees made by a company called Spreadtree since those shots were taken?

Oleg also said something about bugs in the system and how they were using the reduced detail distant models at the moment, which would explain the poor trees in the most recent shots.

[zauii]

Comparing screenshots to one and another never gives any fair results.
Just wait til you have the game in motion and on your computers until you judge.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by furbs

yep...those trees look much better...so i wonder why they dont look as good in the last few updates?

anyone have a idea?

I'd hazard a guess that we are seeing a low quality landscape with low quality trees, ie; the worst it will look.