some rain and some wind

another environment, project almost finished... thanks for comments

i like it. i didnt thought i would say it ever but some bloom for the background could add the little extra to the fog in this scene.

rain aint easy to make so it looks good. maybe you will post some video later on as well to show the scene in motion. i am sure this will look even better.

if there is one thing that could be added it would be shadows. maybe you find a way to fake them onto the ground (sprites, models, shader). this would be a great add on.

great work so far, keep it up and keep some shots and videos coming

cheers

I think for rain I can see too far. You need more fog. So you can reduce the clip range and speed up everything and even use more raindrops. Anyway, for the rain as it is now there is too less fog.

though i like the overall atmosphere, the scene's lacking a lil contrast, eh? the houses look flat with no shades at all. even if the weather is dense like in your pics, there's still supposed to be some lighting.

you'll see some of that contrast if he adds in some shadows, i think it looks great, and yeah, a little bloom might help a bit.

there are no shadows without sun. You could make it darker. When it´s raining like that it´s also more dark or my screen is maybe a little bit bright.

thanks for all the comments...

i think bloom will kill the performance, but if i find the time i will try...
reworked the raindrops, screens will follow...

well, the lighting is pretty poor, stencil shadows wont work (cant work withouth non-intersected models) and for prerendered shadows is literally no space (shader system does not support any more maps or skins)

will try to do some finetuning but with the RC deadline on monday things are a little tight around here...

I like it

Could be used for a zombie shooter game

Or a very realistic RPG... with a great atmosphere =)

thanks for the kind words...
rpg or shooter are sure to follow...

added a little bloom... cuts the fps in half but its optional
(please dont mind the red dots in the right corner, they are radarmarkers but the radar is not visible)



same scene without blur...

Looks much more impressive than above. First pics are kinda sulky.

I think in general, it looks quite good !!
The total enviroment fits a WWI or WWII type of game
Well no comment about the bloom and other effect, I think they explained there point clear and I think the same way ^^ so only my C&C about the total look which you already read, was good

Cheers

Frazzle

That background/horizont looks awesome... it really does ... I like it!
The only thing i don't like is the grass... It's great at the tips, I'd leave that part, but somehow you need to make it "flow" with the texture underneath. make it look like it acctually belongs there. right now it looks too cut off...
other than that: great!

I really like the trees, buildings, and textures. I think they go together well and give a nice feel to the environment. I do however think that the grass shapes are bit out of place, and look a bit ugly. I would either get rid of them altogether, or maybe just making them smaller would help. But they do take away from everything else.

I have never worked with grass, but here's my sugestion: make the bottom ends of the grass a bit longer/shorter on each sprite, so that it looks like some of the grass is closer to you than the other parts of the sprite. Don't change it much, otherwise it'll look weird when u get close, but just a bit... here's what I mean:
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Imagine these lines to be the grass... you can see how some of it is longer at the bottom than other parts...
That would probably make it look less "cut off"...
Just my idea
Micha

... or just make it slightly transparent at the bottom (with a transition of transparency). You can create such a transition with a gradient in the alpha channel or with using a soft eraser tool with low opacity several times on your graphic.

by the way: Damocles told me that once.

thats a very nice horizon, you can tell its a sunset. Looks something straight out of Brothers in Arms, very nice.

I second that comment about changing how abrupt those grass/wheat sprites close to the camera end when they touch the floor. Unfortunatly after seeing the beautiful sky and then seeing the cut off grass at the bottom hurts the suspension of belief. Dont worry ALOT of professional AAA games have these types of problems, but I'm not going to let you off easy because of that...:P

Whats up with those white rocks? They seem out of place.

Still, the screens are beautiful, would very much like to see some nazis being shot in front of that sky.

thank you for the ideas...
about the rocks: i reduced the ambient, thank you for the reminder, would habe forgotten it...

about the grass... i can not change the models itself anymore (to many files and lods, etc...), but i will try scaling it down and reducing the max alpha of the fading in... will keep you posted...
thanks for the suggestions

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there are no shadows without sun.

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Thats not true, there are always shadows, even if the light is very diffuse. For one thing, the sky is a diffuse light even if the sun is hidden.