CoD vs some other sims that model Kent?

[Houndstone Hawk]

@ David Hayward

But your pics highlight beautifully the very point that is painstakingly trying to be put across to you. The fact that the trees are so isolated & apart gives it an extremely un-uk feel, more akin to the mediterranean etc.

[Buchon]

Im the only one that are aware that in this screenshot the trees are not set at Very High, that is why there spacing between them

That looks a damn sight more like England than WoP does. The problem with CoD's overall look has everything to do with lack of FSAA and AF and nothing to do with design and layout. Digital Vibrance has sorted the colour for me too.

[W0ef]

Originally Posted by Buchon

Im the only one that are aware that in this screenshot the trees are not set at Very High, that is why there spacing between them

Erm, as far as I'm aware I'm running all settings maxed out, that includes the trees

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Houndstone Hawk

@ David Hayward

But your pics highlight beautifully the very point that is painstakingly trying to be put across to you. The fact that the trees are so isolated & apart gives it an extremely un-uk feel, more akin to the mediterranean etc.

It does nothing of the sort. The CoD screenshot is virtually identical to the photo. The CoD "isolated trees" are blind WoP fanboyism. The same "isolated trees" exist in the WoP shot.

yes but its the branches dave, look you cant ignore it lol cos its true. Go outside your house and look at how the trees braches knit with trees close together creating a dense look, no how do you think its gonna look at height?

[Houndstone Hawk]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

It does nothing of the sort. The CoD screenshot is virtually identical to the photo. The CoD "isolated trees" are blind WoP fanboyism. The same "isolated trees" exist in the WoP shot.

WOP FANBOYISM?????????? Read some my previous posts & you'll soon get a picture of my feelings toward the highly arcade, flat-as-a pancake WOP but the fact remains ... it looks better as a BoB sim environmentally. This is largely down to the fact that COD has to cope with such a huge theatre whereas the console-like arcade feel of WOP means it only has to draw miniscule theatres each time.

[Friendly_flyer]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

It does nothing of the sort. The CoD screenshot is virtually identical to the photo. The CoD "isolated trees" are blind WoP fanboyism. The same "isolated trees" exist in the WoP shot.

No, it is not blind fanboyism.

I do not own WoP, I never had the time to buy it, and like you I find the green haze entirely overdone. The washed out colours too could possibly pass of as a bleak Central European winter, but never as a Britsih summer.

However, just when it comes to the trees and their placement, they do feel more natural, and is a much closer match for teh photoes. Now remember, back in the 1940ies, there were even more hedgerows than now.

What is lacking from CoD 8and which WoP has solved quite smartly by their dark lines, is bushes. There are a lot of isolated trees in CoD. As was noted, it gives the terrain a more Mediterranian look. The typical British landscape has a lot more bushes than trees really. If you want to see a decent rendering of the mid-ceentury British countryside, I'd suggest "Thomas the Tank Engine" (the original series).

With the size of the CoD map, implementing bushed the way they have with trees would likely not be practical. I'm not a programmer, but I think some large bush-objevts to fill out the forests and some long ones for the hedges would do.

[Baron]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

It isn't even a close call. The WoP screenshot looks like garbage. The CoD shot looks like the photo. WoP may have more trees, but that doesn't make it look more like the landscape in the photo.

Seriously, it is not possible to look at those 3 shots and not say that WoP looks more real unless you are on the graphic arts staff for WoP, and even they would probably admit that CoD looks better.

End of discussion.


And black/darkbrown lines along fields doesnt make hedge rows in my book. Sry.

[GuillermoZS]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

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This photograph has obviously been color corrected and oversaturated to look nice... it does not look as you would see that landscape in that same moment and in that position with your own eyes. Same problem with CloD colors, oversaturated IMO.