Thread: 2.0 Grass: please change!

I honestly can't believe we have a 200 post thread about the (#&#$ing grass. Christ, it looks fine. Sure, i've seen some games do better but

1) Out of all the visual elements in the screenshots, just about everything was so totally awesome that you really have to try hard to look at the grass and complain about it.
2) It's not finished yet. It could easily be their first terrain foliage pass and they haven't gone over it with a fine toothed comb yet.

Why this topic still open?

Hello everyone, I just wanted to point this out.

What OP is talking about is this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr0JICIYyzU. This is a trick used to cover up the sharp spikes that trees tend to show in pretty much all the games. Some work around is ether doing this, high polygon count just for grass, or restricting the camera so it wouldn't notice this (tera does this). Though, I don't think I could ever find myself getting upset over grass, I just wanted everyone to visually see what OP is talking about. Personally, I never noticed this on Just Cause 2 until someone pointed this out. I don't really care if it's implemented or not though.

So, let me get this straight:

- OP says that Xenoblade's grass looks better because it's technically inferior, but uses a technique that makes it look better.
- So, OP says "downgrade the technical stuff, get better looking grass and improve (in theory) the framerates"
- Then people are saying "OMG HE WANTS BETTER GRASS! MY FPS! MY PC IS GOING TO EXPLODE!"

That about right?

Originally Posted by Kaizlu

So, let me get this straight:

- OP says that Xenoblade's grass looks better because it's technically inferior, but uses a technique that makes it look better.
- So, OP says "downgrade the technical stuff, get better looking grass and improve (in theory) the framerates"
- Then people are saying "OMG HE WANTS BETTER GRASS! MY FPS! MY PC IS GOING TO EXPLODE!"

That about right?

Precisely. The grass isn't worth game speed, and I think its a krock anyway.

How often do people stare at this stuff anyway?