Thread: 2.0 Grass: please change!

Wow. Some of you guys have really taken this to a whole new level. I understand many of you are attached to the game and kind of defend it with a fight or flight type of response. I was just making a simple suggestion to the dev team, which they can consider.

Also, this thread is not about grass on the ground but the technique used to display the 2D plants that already exist in the game. It's not a suggestion to ADD to the plants or anything like that.

So, on to some of the posts.

Originally Posted by Ganbachi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuKX52_z19s
FF13-2 grass looks amazing with the wind blowing. Wind physics adds a lot more to the feel.

Yeah that does look really good. It's kind of sad.

Originally Posted by Arcell

You're comparing a single player console game to an MMO. You're an idiot lol.

This comment doesn't sound like it is coming from reason. But the grass technique used is less polys than the current technique.

Originally Posted by Gramul

Por que Espanol?



He wants a grass that looks good and doesn't burden the system.
I don't see why people are getting so upset with him. It's not like he's going to quit over it.

He just made a suggestion and people are all: "oh why don't you just quit" or "You're stupid!"
It's rude.

Um yeah! This.

Originally Posted by Alfortis

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.

^This right here is the same effect as Xenoblade.

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?

Sounds about right. It's just mentally challenged people getting emotional about something when they should check themselves. Your life won't end if this game is late, blows up, or sucks.