Thread: 2.0 Grass: please change!

Originally Posted by Gramul

You guys are starting to get personal.

Well, if ole' Punainen here is having reading comprehension troubles I'm sure someone out there in the vast space of the Internet is too. So maybe this dialogue will serve some cosmic purpose!

Originally Posted by Neptune

Well, if ole' Punainen here is having reading comprehension troubles I'm sure someone out there in the vast space of the Internet is too. So maybe this dialogue will serve some cosmic purpose!

Wow, you are sooooo angry right now.

Originally Posted by Zottan

Caedarva Mire Everywhere

Totally man. It's PS2 all over again. Sad.

Originally Posted by Punainen

Yeah, so like I said, 'omigawd why are these weeds and wildflowers not grass-bunches!??'

Also, rotating grass... just..........lol... Yeah...'cause that's totally realistic when the angle of the grass never changes despite the camera angle change. SO much more immersive and shit. Lol. I'm beginning to think you must be trolling.

I see a sparkle of comprehension in there. It IS more immersive because it's not an EYESORE. Eyesores interfere with the suspension of disbelief. Add it up.

Originally Posted by Neptune

Totally man. It's PS2 all over again. Sad.



I see a sparkle of comprehension in there. It IS more immersive because it's not an EYESORE. Eyesores interfere with the suspension of disbelief. Add it up.

Lol. An eyesore is better than magically rotating grass. When I change perspective, the perspective should change. Its not immersive for all plantlife to be attached to tiny swivels in the ground, and look identical from EVERY angle.

For that matter, actually... These are SCREENSHOTS. You can't even be sure that its NOT stupidly magical rotating grass.

Originally Posted by Neptune

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

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:

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.

Originally Posted by bobbygunz

in player polls graphics was voted as the only redeeming thing about this game, so they downgraded it. duh.

The plants are just as flat in 1.0. He just needed something to complain about, so he was staring at the ground in the screenshots until he came up with something.