Friday 2010-09-03 Dev. update and Discussions

[Ekar]

Originally Posted by ChrisDNT

Ok, look at this...



... don't you see the differences ?


P.S: of course, I'm not speaking here of the über-ugly filtering of WOP, just of the geometry of the landscape and the implantation of the trees, fields, roads and rivers.

Yeah, WOP seems to have a much more natural/organic/diverse clumping arrangement of trees than SOW currently. This might be a low settings thing again, but I also think WOP still looks pretty good on low settings from memory.

SOW definitely has the better colour palette here. Most of the other WOP maps fare better in terms of the colours, but the English one is quite bad, imo. Of course, it all depends on the weather. Natural lighting is incredibly changeable.

[JtD]

Second time I can only say very nice pics!

[Igo kyu]

The pictures do look good, the planes to my not particularly knowledgeable eyes look good, but the lack of proper railways is terrible.

If we'd seen railways sooner, it could have been said sooner.

This is not in my view fixable before release, unless release is already set to be in the third quarter of 2011, and there is already someone working full time on nothing but railways.

Most places where rails crossed roads, there were bridges. Often railways were raised above the level of the land (called embankments), often railways were below the level of the land (called cuttings), sometimes if there was a long hill in the way there was a tunnel cut through the hill. This made it possible to keep the levels of the railways fairly flat, which in a hilly country, which Britain is, meant that the trains could travel faster and more efficiently. Railways were not new in Britain in 1940, the locomotives and rolling stock were fairly modern, but the railways were mostly laid out before 1900.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History..._Great_Britain

It was a lot of work, but workers were cheap in those days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvy

I used to think Tree was a pessimist, but if this is going to be fixed before release he's now looking very optimistic indeed.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

The pictures do look good, the planes to my not particularly knowledgeable eyes look good, but the lack of proper railways is terrible.

If we'd seen railways sooner, it could have been said sooner.

This is not in my view fixable before release, unless release is already set to be in the third quarter of 2011, and there is already someone working full time on nothing but railways.

Most places where rails crossed roads, there were bridges. Often railways were raised above the level of the land (called embankments), often railways were below the level of the land (called cuttings), sometimes if there was a long hill in the way there was a tunnel cut through the hill. This made it possible to keep the levels of the railways fairly flat, which in a hilly country, which Britain is, meant that the trains could travel faster and more efficiently. Railways were not new in Britain in 1940, the locomotives and rolling stock were fairly modern, but the railways were mostly laid out before 1900.

The various rail system's, were built that way here in the State's as well...I'm not sure that any thing could be done at this point, or should I say I doubt.

Let me add that we have not seen what rails lie in other portions of the map