Friday Update, April 6, 2012

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by Volksieg

I did have to make a few adjustments to my monitor settings as, with it's factory pre-sets, the countryside was a pastel nightmare.... but yeah... I'm 'appy.

After hearing the 'calibrate your monitor' response a few times I bought a Spyder 4 Pro - no good, it's still a 'pastel nightmare' (I'll qualify that a bit - everything looks good from the ground and low-level, it's when you get a few thousand feet up that the pastel tones come in. The devs must surely be aware of this so I hope to see some more tuning of the lighting effects in the new patch to get it right)

I think France works better than England too. Everything seems too haphazard and unstructured in the COD English landscape. The strange thing is that they did a much better job with the old Open GL version (1946 DVD). Even videos of the pre-release demo version from the Russian games show (Igromir) look A LOT better than I see currently on my PC.

[furbs]

The preview on the DVD looked much better because of the more organic layout, hedgerows and much much better colours.
The terrain blended in much better with the towns and roads which leads to a more realistic feeling.

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by furbs

The preview on the DVD looked much better because of the more organic layout, hedgerows and much much better colours.
The terrain blended in much better with the towns and roads which leads to a more realistic feeling.

Agreed. I would LOVE to have something that looked like that.

They absolutely nailed the English countryside with that version.

[kendo65]

Ok - something strange.

I've wondered about this for a while. I saved a few of the videos from the Igromir show. One in particular showed a Hurricane flying over the English countryside.

I've just done a few screenshots from the video. This is the pre-release DX version of the game remember, but look at the terrain layout...

hedgerows, nice layout - looks very like the Open GL???

So what's going on?

[furbs]

Originally Posted by kendo65

Ok - something strange.

I've wondered about this for a while. I saved a few of the videos from the Igromir show. One in particular showed a Hurricane flying over the English countryside.

I've just done a few screenshots from the video. This is the pre-release DX version of the game remember, but look at the terrain layout...

Hedgerows, nice layout - looks very like the Open GL???

So what's going on?

Not sure, but that looks a little different and better to what we have now...maybe just a test of a area?

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by kendo65

Ok - something strange.

I've wondered about this for a while. I saved a few of the videos from the Igromir show. One in particular showed a Hurricane flying over the English countryside.

I've just done a few screenshots from the video. This is the pre-release DX version of the game remember, but look at the terrain layout...

hedgerows, nice layout - looks very like the Open GL???

So what's going on?

They've certainly attempted it. I'm not sure what's changed, but the layout looks a lot better.

Currently, it's not a case that they need more trees: rather they need less trees and more hedgerows.

[kendo65]

Is it possible that what we want IS in there, but for whatever reason (probably performance or bugs) it was removed from the release version??

It's an intriguing possibility. I'd certainly feel very happy if I thought they could put it back to that as easily as they apparently changed it?

p.s. welcome back Tree

[Luftwaffepilot]

Originally Posted by kendo65

Ok - something strange.

I've wondered about this for a while. I saved a few of the videos from the Igromir show. One in particular showed a Hurricane flying over the English countryside.

I've just done a few screenshots from the video. This is the pre-release DX version of the game remember, but look at the terrain layout...

hedgerows, nice layout - looks very like the Open GL???

So what's going on?

I wondered that myself. The igromir videos, although mostly taken with a pocket calculator, looked much better, better colors, better contrast and better feel of Britain.

[louisv]

Originally Posted by kendo65

Ok - something strange.

I've wondered about this for a while. I saved a few of the videos from the Igromir show. One in particular showed a Hurricane flying over the English countryside.

I've just done a few screenshots from the video. This is the pre-release DX version of the game remember, but look at the terrain layout...

hedgerows, nice layout - looks very like the Open GL???

So what's going on?

That was before speedtrees, and I don't see anymore hedgerows than the current version.

I remember disctintly that this version of the landscape was rejected by many (including the usual suspects...) because of the cartoony look of the trees and the landscape in general.

Opengl has nothing to do with it.

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by louisv

That was before speedtrees, and I don't see anymore hedgerows than the current version.

No, it wasn't. This was a couple of months before the release - video is dated 5th November 2010 to be exact.

The Open GL version was way before. This is a DirectX pre-release version (with SpeedTree).

Looks VERY different to me?!?

Originally Posted by louisv

I remember disctintly that this version of the landscape was rejected by many (including the usual suspects...) because of the cartoony look of the trees and the landscape in general.

Opengl has nothing to do with it.

Reread my earlier posts. I think you're getting confused between two different versions.