Thread: 2.0 Grass: please change!

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They haven't done any resolution comparisons yet so i'm not going to call foul. I personally find those ground textures to be really bad. They don't need to be perfect and I probably will deal with them but if that really is what I have to deal with on high settings i'm not impressed.

From the look of the presentation the grass looks good in motion, its just the screenshot which makes it look ugly

<.< >.> You two do realize it's a really bad sign when everyone but you has evacuated the thread right? I don't usually get involved in these types of things, but this is an intervention.

Originally Posted by Neptune

Dev team, do you think you could adjust the grass before 2.0's launch?


http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/img/...349/rea_14.jpg


http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/img/...349/rea_03.jpg

I think the grass looks particularly bad in this last one. Notice that the grass is indeed 2D grass. It's painfully obvious. There is a better way to do 2D grass though:


http://i.imgur.com/5IIFT.jpg

Wow! Xenoblade's grass is so much easier on the eyes. It's because every piece of grass is identical, and it auto-rotates to face the camera. It's an illusion that is broken if you stare at one piece of grass while you move around, but as an ambient component of the overall scene it is quite pleasing to the eyes. Also the Xenoblade grass would result in even better framerates.

Do it!

Also I know the trees are a little more of a stretch, but who thinks the trees in Xenoblade look better? They are 2D.

I'm fine with it, still better looking than any other MMO on the market, and please stop using offline titles as comparison.

Seriously? Whining over grass? And then using single person games for comparisons? Some people really need to get a grip.

I'm going to have to agree this grass really looks bad. It was the first thing i noticed when i seen the new pics. I think it would be alot better if they just cut down on how much grass there is visible.

Originally Posted by Lum

I'm going to have to agree this grass really looks bad. It was the first thing i noticed when i seen the new pics. I think it would be alot better if they just cut down on how much grass there is visible.

It actually looks a lot better in the live demo. I think it's the moving shadows on the grass that makes it look grainy and badly textured.

It doesn't help that the screenshots are in a pretty low resolution either. I'm actually more excited to see Thanalan than the shroud though.