Friday 2010-08-06 Dev. update and Discussions

[Robert]

Thanks Luthier. Nice update, and I'm really liking the terrain through the He111 pit. Good job to the crew.

[Bloblast]

Luthier,

The 2nd picture is it above a coastal city?

[HFC_Dolphin]

Excellent pictures, thanks!

[BG-09]

Unbelievable good update. I am beginning to be afraid of the altitude...Looks damn real.

~S!

[NSU]

how your Team make the trees?

i like this way

a photo from a tree, cut out with Alpha


two planes (low polygone)


and the low poly tree look good (ok i make it fast)


you need tree photos, please call me i make many pictures.

[Meusli]

Originally Posted by NSU

how your Team make the trees?

i like this way

a photo from a tree, cut out with Alpha


two planes (low polygone)


and the low poly tree look good (ok i make it fast)


you need tree photos, please call me i make many pictures.

Here is what they use NSU. http://www.speedtree.com/trees/

[NSU]

i know speed trees, but a flightsimulation need low polygone trees

[Dano]

Originally Posted by NSU

how your Team make the trees?

i like this way

a photo from a tree, cut out with Alpha


two planes (low polygone)


and the low poly tree look good (ok i make it fast)


you need tree photos, please call me i make many pictures.

I utterly detest trees done via this method, they look absolutely awful.

[tourmaline]

Originally Posted by NSU

how your Team make the trees?

i like this way

a photo from a tree, cut out with Alpha


two planes (low polygone)


and the low poly tree look good (ok i make it fast)


you need tree photos, please call me i make many pictures.

They are using special software that can animate trees and grass, no photoshop textures!

The game is really nicely comming together.

[NSU]

Originally Posted by tourmaline

They are using special software that can animate trees and grass, no photoshop textures!

The game is really nicely comming together.

we talk about last LOD3 size 1000 to 10000m
not LOD1 the 3D Tree

i think he will make 3 LODs for the Tree


close LOD1 ca. 100 polygones
medium LOD2 ca. 20 polygones
far LOD3 ca. 4 polygones

for LOD3 i think Storm of War have no more than 4 poly`s, the point is the Texture, it must look like a Big Tree.

sorry for my bad english