Friday 2010-08-06 Dev. update and Discussions

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My 2c worth:
The foreground trees in pic 1 look strange because the position of the shadow relative to the tree gives the impression of a flat plane of branches/leaves suspended with a large gap to the ground. (most) Real trees have greenery with a larger vertical aspect than horizontal .
Also the trees at near to medium distance appear to have a dark outline. This makes them look hand outlined and coloured in, giving ,I think, the impression some have of "cartoonishness".
I guess at these distances each tree is only a few pixels, so the complexity of speedtree offers little advantage over a simple 2d shape, for, you have to think, quite a big performance hit.

Originally Posted by NSU

the Trees look like to hard, make a little transparens so look like softer and better in the landscape.

Exactly.


The trees in the second picture look strange NOT because of their height, but because the size of the leaves (look close to (1/2m2) makes them look scaled up relative to everything else.

Originally Posted by dali

if anyone of you is going to notice the exact height of the trees during the flight or even fight, I buy him a pint.

I probably wouldn't notice the height, but definitely would notice the enormous leaves.

Things looked a whole lot better here:

Sorry for what seems like a terribly negative post.
Cockpit interiors look fantastic. Everything looks fantastic.
Except the trees.