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  1. Posted

    Those palms... sad_o.gif they shouldn't sway like that, only the leaves. Neither should anyother tree sway like that if the trunk is thicker then 10 cm in my opinion. But meh i'll ignore it or mod it, leaves should be swaying not trees. :O

    I beg to disagree. I live in the desert and I am surrounded in real life by the very same species of Washingtonia Robusta and Phoenix Dactylifera, many if not most that are the same size or larger, and they do indeed sway in a stiff breeze.

    In a light breeze, you are correct, the fronds just wave around.

  2. Posted

    That's not sunlight, but a flash from an explosion or a muzzle flash. Look at the shadows of the barrels of the tank cast on it's body, they go perpendicular to the light source on the side of the tank. Those are the ambient light shadows, so the bright light is from another source. Notice only part of the turret is lit, but the whole side of the lower part of the tank is reflecting light. Definitely not ambient light there.

  3. Posted

    Now some of you guys have mentioned that the recent pictures maybe from a few months back so we shouldn't take these pictures as anything near what we should expect from the final build, BUT i hope your right. The picture i've posted below sent a shiver down my spine. Look at the two armoured vehicles "bouncing" of each other just like the OFP armoured vehicle combat. Also i hope the island used for the picture was a test island as i'm not very impressed with the layout of the buildings. Since when have large structures been placed directly on a grass surface. Lets see more paved textures here please. To tell you the truth i'm a little suprised that BIS arn't using some of the many talented guys we have right here in our community to make the soldier and vehicle models and islands. BIA (VBS1) did just that and the outcome was a superb USARMY pack and terrain 3 pack.

    [im]http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/1010/aramatiscal24kn.jpg[/img]

    Look at that picture a little closer though. Notice the raised bumps on the grass. That's not the standard BIS grass carpet from OFP, that's actual vegetation. Also, look at the tracks left by the tanks through it. Another improvement over OFP.

    Considering these are older screenshots being released just now, I think we are all in for a surprise.

    Since when has BIS ever shown us their hand so early in the game? They always hit us with a big surprise right before its actually released. I think when they do finally tip their hand, we are just going to be shocked by what we see.

  4. Posted

    Did you guys notice the terrain detail and the vegetation from those aerial shots? Looks pretty good compared to OFP. Also, was that a road, or a stream in the one shot?

    If that's an actual flowing stream, we're in business. Small waterways are going to add a lot to realism. Imagine streams, rivers, rice paddies, etc...

    Smaller terrain detail might mean being able to implement realistic trenches and earthworks as well.

    I'm getting excited all over again.

  5. Posted

    Quote[/b] ]Caliber is large, and range is danger close.

    I neither can see the weapon used, nor is the range close. Close range is 10 - 15 m´s.

    It was from a Dragunov sniper rifle. I remember seeing that when it happened. Modern U.S. body armor will frequently stop a 7.62 round on the plates, which are now ceramic and not steel by the way. That guy got up and returned fire afterwards, so the newer body armor is a whole generation removed from the stuff used just five or six years ago.

  8. Posted

    Well, some leaves are greener than others. Certain plants have waxy coated leaves that make them bright and vibrant compared to others. I think dulling down leaves to make them match up with other overly dull leaves in the game actually detracts from the reality. We should aim to make things look more real, not more uniform.

  11. Posted

    Wow, absolutely amazing. It makes me want to work harder on creating realistic environments to go with these projects.

    You know what would really rock in that video?

    If someone did a cigarette smoking animation. It would have been spooky cool if the Russian soldiers standing around watching the interrogation in the beginning were taking drags off of cigarettes and then flicked them away or crushed them under their feet after the execution as they began to walk off.

    Someone should think about adding this.

  13. Posted

    You can create an alpha channel quickly by selecting all, copying, pasting into a new selection of the same size, then inverting the image, then go to channel mixer, select monochrome and slide all the sliders to the max to make it black and white. Then simply create a new channel in the original image and copy and paste the alpha into it.

    But, by using an offset color, if your alpha is a bit off, it will pick up the similar color in the image and the eye can't differentiate between the alpha and the actual texture.

  14. Posted

    What was meant by using a two color alpha is to use a green that is slightly offset from the green of the foliage for the leaves and a brown that is slightly offset from the brown of the trunk as your alpha channel colors and it will eliminate the "glowing" edges you are getting. This will save you a lot of time from hand editing your alphas to correct the problem.

    Listen, if you are serious about this project, I can give you speedtree for 3D Studio Max and a crapload of professionally done textures from Marlin Studios and ImageCELs. Also, I have Xfrog and textures for that application as well as a range of RPC 3D textures that are readily converted in photoshop.

    The only thing I ask is that the finished products go into the 3WX Nursery inventory upon completion for the community to use at their will.

  15. Posted

    Artillery would make the game virtually unplayable if there aren't folds in the terrain, trenches, foxholes and shellholes to hide in. If you are going to implement one, you need to implement the other.

    This problem could be solved if they allowed us to create terrain variations down to the square meter instead of the monster size differences that are allowed in the current game.

  19. Posted

    I think it just defaults everything outside the view distance to its most distant LOD, so it eats up less processing power than it would with a larger view distance. A smaller view distance is more efficient on the CPU, since everything within the larger view distance isn't being rendered at closer LOD's

  20. Posted

    Terrain streaming means the terrain ahead of you is not rendered by the cpu yet until you get near it, and the terrain you leave behind dissappears unless you head back towards it. OFP renders the entire map, so it drains cpu power for objects and models you cannot even see.

  21. Posted

    IMO BIS has just speraded more confusion this time, first they show us some uber-leet pics that we all wanted to see, then Placebo says "play with number 3", then we get some game called AA (name makes me puke) with some touch-ups in graphics witch don't seem impressive because it looks like theyre playing it on 800Mhz machine, I mean c'mon BIS you can do better, at this time I'm quite dissapointed if this is OFP2 and if not, and if OFP2 is actually what they have shown us at first, BIS is going with EA style policy: Get quick ca$h with AA then pump out OFP2 in the next year. AA is same as OFP XBOX - a total failiure, from my point of view I have yet to see something from BIS that isn't possible in OFP (not counting lightning). Also if theyre working on OFP2 why are they bothering with AA if we're gonna have OFP2 in 2006?

    IMO we currently stand on this:

    -Codies own OFP and geniuses at BIS couldn't get any creative than ArmedAss.

    -We've seen two sets of pics with no idea witch game is the first ones from

    -We're gonna get OFP1+ (a.k.a. ArmedAss) in Q4 2005

    -Since BIS didn't make up with codies first set of pics isn't OFP2 but ArmedAss2

    -IMO I'd rather that they didn't say anything than this, again it's all nice and dandy but if this is all we're gonna see I am not impressed.

    BUT Maybe BIS will prove me wrong  wink_o.gif

    Bud, you might want to read up on the past few days news and then edit this rant. I'm sure once you're informed, you'll be feeling a bit sheepish. wink_o.gif

  22. Posted

    How can you be not impressed?

    A. You haven't seen more than a dozen screenshots of this new game. B. BIS went through the trouble to give you something to tide you over until OFP2, and C. all the improvements the mod community was asking for the original game have been delivered until the next engine comes out.

    What does it take to impress cheapskates like you, flames blowing out your ass? A bevvy of hookers and a thousand gallons of beer?

    If you don't want to spend the money, keep playing OFPR, the rest of us I can guarantee you, will be playing AA.

  23. Posted

    Just from looking at screenshots and reading the press release I can see a few improvements.

    1. Improved graphics: AA has 3D trees and bushes, not billboards or 3D/billboard hybrids.

    2. 100km X 100km maps total out to 10,000 km^2, which indicates streaming terrain. This means modmakers like myself can now create extremely detailed environments.

    3. Improved engine for physics. I see water in waves on the ocean, something unheard of in OFP. If it uses the improvements added to VBS1, we can do a lot more for the community.

    What I hope it includes:

    A. Better collision detection and clipping problems solved.

    B. Allows smaller terrain details and water at multiple levels.

    C. Better AI.

  24. Posted

    I'm perfectly happy with O2 now, though it took a lot of effort to learn.

    I would like to know what if any changes need to be made to the models we are currently making as I now intend to coincide the next major 3WX release with the release of AA. I've just stepped up my work into overdrive.

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