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i think its because we all loved OFP so much that we have high expectations for ArmA. nice post tho.

New technology has been discussed with John Carmack, co-founder of id software who worked on the Doom games and is currently using a new technology called megatexturing on the game Quake Wars. basically it allows for unlimited sized textures to be used without overloading the memory, i think this will be very useful for next-gen games, specifically for large terrains (which Game2 will no doubt have). The only limitation is storage space (which isnt really an issue for PCs) and artist detail. Here is a link to the article: MegaTexturing Article

haha 468GB texture would look nice tho

merged the briefing map into the map of the whole island so you can get an idea of the size :P Map plus you need to remember that the amount of soldiers in the SP campaign is finite, i.e. if you end up losing all your teammates in the first mission you dont go into the next mission with them (like you can in OFP if i remember, been a while since i played the campaign :P).

yeah EA sucks monkey balls, would still buy it tho, or at least just download it and donate to BIS

Video compression. its not all down to compression, that effect is quite poor, but it is still WIP, cant be too critical of it until we see the final version.

btw i wasnt expecting ArmA to display graphics anywhere near what is shown in crysis, but they can do better than what was in that trailer :P

I'm sure those effects would run good on the scale of Armed Assault, not. hehe, you must admit it does look nice tho

omg, he's half bat. half bat?

just noticed that in the first scene none of the soldiers have shadows either (but all do later on in the trailer) so hopefully it was an earlier build.

    Crytek's Crysis btw (DirectX 10)

love the video, always happy to see more of ArmA, especially like the soldier animations, i do have some criticism tho: the trailer looked quite amateurishly done, parts of it had slowdown, you'd think they could at least pre-render it or get a decent system to run it. the compression of the video was pretty poor, colours were a bit funky in places. as for the game, i hope they improve those particle effects, they look quite bad (i hope its WIP), i prefer the OFP one tbh. and the Humvee's didn't render and shadows (its a small thing i know). i also saw the comment about the funny running animations made in the black hawk scenes, i got a screenshot of it, haha i don't want to have sounded pessimistic but i have high expectations of ArmA keep up the good work BIS

hope the fix the static tree shadows, prolly implemented the swaying trees without making them generate dynamic shadows, would make it look even more tropical with the slowly moving tree shadows. cant wait to see ArmA at E3

Do they mean LODs? Â for example bump mapping (aka normal map), not sure what all six are tho. specular, diffusion, texture (of course) layers could be some. edit: btw LOD stands for level of detail not layers of detail.

from the recent german mag preview: Interesting Information Most buildings will not be enterable or destructible AI units should be more intelligent but this was not evident in the play test Jets are still not decided upon 12 missions versus 40 in operation flashpoint The graphics are still not completed – the soldiers cast no shadows for example Release Date – 3rd Quarter 2006 Vehicles will have six layers of detail and double the polygon count All vehicles will have multiple player postions very interesting if you ask me Â

I think a link was posted to a site (link below) containing this video but i believe many have not yet seen it so I'm posting a version that i have re-encoded to avi(DivX) format and cut the video just for the section about ArmA. - Download Lo-Res [35MB] - - Download Hi-Res [63MB] - edit- couple more videos of in-game footage if anyone cares: Russian Gameplay footage Czech TV Show Gameplay footage you can find the origonal czech ArmA trailer via the Russian Gameplay footage but i image everyone has seen that. enjoy Â

couple more videos of in-game footage if anyone cares: Russian Gameplay footage Czech TV Show Gameplay footage updated first post, thought it might be nice to link a few more and i dont think those are that old, second link was only posted on ofp.info 2 days ago. answers a few questions i had tbh (gun sights, death animations etc) no harm in making sure everyone has seen em

thanks edit: hmm doesnt seem to work for me http://w02.easy-sharing.com/396674....iew.wmv = The page cannot be found [404] edit: nvm, works now

Where can i find the high res version of this video then? thanks

I'm sorry that this offends you so much.

p.s. if anyone can translate it, that would be great

aww was all excited then

Another Screenshot Another Screenshot its like finding treasure

wow nice screeenshot, face detail is really good. how did you find it?

please FOR THE LOVE OF GOD give us some more info :'( we were told it would be released in H1 Meaning in the next two months (which is looking ever more unlikely) and all we get is a rough image of an island :/