@Sebastian: thanks for you opinion.

@Slin: the LOD movement is indeed bad at the moment. It's hard to make them move better, because they have only 8 vertices and they are clustered. The trees and grass models you be bought on Dexsoft Games. My graphics card are a Mobility Radeon HD 5450. The last AAA game I played with this was Fable 3 and I could only play if I set all graphical effects to Low. The grass is only visible in a range of 100 metres. It's the shadow that kills the fps and even all other Shade-C effects I've activated (SSAO medium, Antialiasing, DoF, HDR).

@Harry: the movement is basically really like a metronome, it's based on the 3DGS default tree shader. I have to implement some random wind speed and direction variable.

@oliver: in a GPU Gems there is an article about vegetation vertex animation. maybe in part 3, which can be read on NVidia site (but no source code as I remember). basically your scene looks very good for me, only some tweaking needed already mentioned above.

Edit: the gpu gems stuff is fine for small oscillations of leaves, and looks fine when combining with the original 3dgs wind oscillation. just implemented (not all features of course).

started to create some low poly Ivy. First Shot:



Feedback?!

regards Sebastian

Here is one screen of my current game that shows a path and two palmtrees.
The left one is the previous version without shadowmap. The second one is with shadowmap

@Sebastian: the poly count seems to be ok. The texture could be in higher resolution. And maybe you could post a screenshot with normal mapping and shadows applied?

@Benni: the new palm tree looks definitely better. The border between the grass and the path looks too hard, there's no transition.

HEy Oliver, thanks for your Feedback.
The Texture resolution is 2530*889 px i know, not really a power of 2
Just added the ivy directly from GIMP to see some results in Blender, to get a better feeling for the leaf "density".
The lack of Detail in the Texture should be come from the mipmapping / bad alpha clipping in Blender itself.

If ive made some more Models for the whole environment, i would create an "ingame" scene with Normal mapping / shadows and all the fanciest shader stuff

Thanks
Sebastian

#EDIT:
one of the two branches:


( i like the jpeg artifacts )

EDIT:
Asked Slin if he could render some nice images in Rayne... so here it is:

Nice shots! But it looks to me as if the normalmapping on the first and the last shot on the bricks is not correct. I believe on the first image, the handedness is wrong, the normal is pointing into the wrong direction. Do you evaluate the handedness due to inverted UV coordinates?

I tried to write an efficient ssao shader, but it ended up as an overkill ^^'

(1080p, 24 samples per pixel, 4x supersampled)

@Kartoffel: It looks awesome !!!