Grass

[Zangetsu]

Speaking of grass. They should make an Island with a giant palm tree the size of the tree in Windy.

[Shougun]

Speaking of grass. They should make an Island with a giant palm tree the size of the tree in Windy.

The heavens tower?

[Altena]

Let me get this straight.. You are comparing this...


(1.0 Gridania.. Grass looks to me like it has been steamrolled.)

or



to this?


(ARR)

Pfft, grass effects in 1.0 were a lot less interesting then the released screenshots / videos of alpha..

It has improved 10 fold to 1.0, and that is what you should be comparing it against.

[KoujiGeki]

wait this is serious thing? people really care about grass?

[Ryokyu]

god another grass thread lmao XD oh boy

[bobbygunz]

I assume they had to keep the graphics bad for PS3 reasons, and don't have enough time (or are too lazy) to make separate assets for PC.

[Shougun]

I assume they had to keep the graphics bad for PS3 reasons, and don't have enough time (or are too lazy) to make separate assets for PC.

Well that is a fear some players have, but the good news is that they do at least intend to support DX10/11 - which may come with some features usually associated to them (though not limited to - that and better performance).

They said that up close objects on the ps3 will be just like that of the PC but they are using a lot of tricks to make sure the ps3 can run (so things like heavy use of LOD).


Last I remember they are aiming for 10-11 GB of storage, and I don't remember them saying if the PC is any different. They may be trying to impress everyone with how close they can get the PS3 to PC (increasing their PS3 sales), but I hope after all that is done they let the PC do what it can do (which is honestly any recent "gaming" PC can destroy the PS3).

[Griss]

Or alternately no one actually cared about the stinking grass and were jumping on that weeks bandwagon.

[Shougun]

Or alternately no one actually cared about the stinking grass and were jumping on that weeks bandwagon.

Except some people do, obviously I am a person. Or the best damn AI you've ever seen.

[ZakarnRosewood]

You know what bothers me more about the grass, its not how pixilated it looks, its how it doesn't react to anything. I would much rather they put efforts into making the grass at least slightly react to someone running through it or rubbing up against a bush. Collision detection. Have yet to see a single thread complaining about that. Who cares if it looks good, I would rather have no grass instead of ghost grass. I'm afraid of ghosts...