Twitter screen shot

[SgtMAD]

didn't see anything about this pic

http://yfrog.com/nxm11zj

[Sirisian]

Clouds. :)

[Graywolves]

I need a new computer.

[Crazyduckling]

I need a new computer.

so do i.

[cellinaire]

So, that's the photorealistic sky/cloud system they were talking about in last art-themed webcast :D

Hope that system makes it into the final product. Oh guys, this game will be epic lol

[Bags]

Wait, that's not a picture? :o

[NapalmEnima]

Huge Picy (http://t.co/uU7z6Oav) twittered from @mhigby showing a gorgeous sunset. And I'm pretty sure that's In Game!

:eek:

[Bags]

SGT mad beat you to it.

[Zulthus]

:hass:

[Raymac]

no f-ing way. If that was some static backdrop, it would be impressive. But if those are clouds that react to a dynamic sun cycle....nope, my mortal brain can't process that.

[Graywolves]

speaking of clouds and skies.

Remember the indar sunset screenshot?

There's alot of buildings/doodads and stuff there. I'd like someone to analyze it, circle lots of stuff and have a good speculation thread.

[Captain B]

I need a new computer.

Same, but it'll be worth it!

[Traak]

On a per-hour-of-enjoyment basis, what costs less than a monster gaming computer?

Nothing I can think of.

[Aractain]

Trolling forums?

[Traak]

Which is a reason to have that computer. why waste precious nanoseconds waiting for a screen to come up? LOL

[Hamma]

Threads merged..

That's pretty impressive!

[LZachariah]

Everyone is going to cert aircraft just to be closer to it. It will be like tea-time in London; every night around sunset, the battle will suddenly grow quiet, as all three factions race to the airfields and take off. Two minutes later, the skies will be filled with hundreds of jets of all sizes, just hovering there, watching the sunset.

*Hundreds of soldiers all sigh quietly in unison: "Wowwww....." *

[Vash02]

Everyone is going to cert aircraft just to be closer to it. It will be like tea-time in London; every night around sunset, the battle will suddenly grow quiet, as all three factions race to the airfields and take off. Two minutes later, the skies will be filled with hundreds of jets of all sizes, just hovering there, watching the sunset.

*Hundreds of soldiers all sigh quietly in unison: "Wowwww....." *

Then right afterwards I come along in a burster max and the sky will light up with explosions.

[Levente]

all i have to say is: M. Bison "Yes Yes!" Widescreen HD reupload - YouTube

[TacosWLove]

Oh purdy. Im very stoked I've got my new Sandy bridge ready to rock this game! Moar screenies please!

And hurry up already Higby! We can be BFFs and ill get you coffee and donutz every morning if that will help? Oh no donuts? Well i could get you a healthy egg white omlet? YA dis good?

[Higby]

it's pretty neat stuff... there are multiple cloud layers, each can be lit by the sun, each cast shadows, they make sunbeams, modulate naturally, get more dense and sparse as time pases, etc. right now it's all "programmer art" too, so once our environment art team gets ahold of it it'll be incredible.

[Quovatis]

Impressive!

[waldizzo]

looks great. Is that some kind of Red Bull computer case in the bottom right? At first I thought, how can that guy drink warm redbull? Then there's some weird ports on the box.

SPECULATION.

[basti]

it's pretty neat stuff... there are multiple cloud layers, each can be lit by the sun, each cast shadows, they make sunbeams, modulate naturally, get more dense and sparse as time pases, etc. right now it's all "programmer art" too, so once our environment art team gets ahold of it it'll be incredible.

Do this: Get yourself a usual PC (Quad Core, GTX 260 - 4xx), put everything on high, including this clouds, and tell us how much you lag.


Really matt, we need details on the entire technical stuff. All we know is josh saying that the game runs on Win XP. Is that indeed true? How exatly could those cloud stuff exist on DX9? Remember, Win XP does not go above DX9, because microsoft wanted to boost its crappy Vista and lied into our faces.

[Crator]

I always got much better frame rate in PS1 in WinXP on same PC (dual boot with Win7). Why is that?

[Chufty]

All I can say is... phwoar!

The great thing about modern PC games is that there's no longer the ridiculous hardware race there used to be. I'm sure PS2 is not going to need a nuclear reactor attached to your PC to get a good framerate.

[NapalmEnima]

All I can say is... phwoar!

The great thing about modern PC games is that there's no longer the ridiculous hardware race there used to be. I'm sure PS2 is not going to need a nuclear reactor attached to your PC to get a good framerate.

Reactor? No. Liquid Nitrogen cooling system? Quite possibly. Modern CPUs/GPUs run freakin HOT.

Why, when I was your age, my home computer UPGRADED to 48kb of RAM. AND WE LIKED IT! Hard drive? Pah! We had two 5.25" floppy drives, and we were lucky to have that! You could put the OS floppy in one drive and your program in the other... you didn't have to swap disks back and forth at all. LUXURY!

(That was an Apple ][. Not plus, not E... just "2")

You could touch the CPU with your finger while it was running. The chips weren't soldered in place, so they'd slowly work their way lose after repeated heat/cool cycles. When it started acting flaky, I'd pop the cover and push all the chips back down.

I was... 10?

Good times. :groovy:


Now get off my lawn.

[Crazyduckling]

Do we need to raise money for a Planetside 2 Red Bull fund? How about some Jaffa Cakes?

I appreciate that SOE is going all out on PS2. They could just create a static sky dome and call it good, but no. Dynamic photorealistic clouds in an MMO? It looks amazing (from what i can tell) even before the environment art team gets it.

[Lartnev]

At first I thought that photo isn't impressive. Then, like Bags, it dawned on me that what I was comparing it to was pre-rendered wallpapers... now it looks pretty awesome! :rock:

It may also explain the tissues on the right* ;)

*People cry when they see the graphics... what did you think I meant?

[basti]

Do we need to raise money for a Planetside 2 Red Bull fund? How about some Jaffa Cakes?

I appreciate that SOE is going all out on PS2. They could just create a static sky dome and call it good, but no. Dynamic photorealistic clouds in an MMO? It looks amazing (from what i can tell) even before the environment art team gets it.

That got me thinking. Yes, you are right, they could go th easy way and be done with it, but why do they spend that much money and efford into the engine?

We know the engine is going to be used for EQ next as well, but it seems they have even bigger plans. Maybe they will sell the engine to others? After all, it is a full blown engine for MMOs, and that is quite rare.

[PsychoXR-20]

I think I'm in love.

I've been saying for years that the atmosphere of a game is almost as important as the game play itself, and one of the things I disliked most about PS1 was is skies. They just didn't look real, and it only got worse with the bending. Sure, some places like Solsar looked neat with the giant sun hanging overhead, but the clouds didn't look right which in turn made the world not feel real. It was one of the things I was most disappointed in from the original alpha sreenshots of PS1 to what we ended up with. Those early alpha screenshots had a much more realistic skybox.

If this is just programmer art...WOW!

[Goku]

it's pretty neat stuff... there are multiple cloud layers, each can be lit by the sun, each cast shadows, they make sunbeams, modulate naturally, get more dense and sparse as time pases, etc. right now it's all "programmer art" too, so once our environment art team gets ahold of it it'll be incredible.

Its looking great. Even if PS2 is not going to be a graphical power house the art behind it going to make it look awesome.

[DviddLeff]

Not read up on this at all; are they unreachable as part of the skybox or can we fly around and through the clouds?

[basti]

Not read up on this at all; are they unreachable as part of the skybox or can we fly around and through the clouds?

The clouds are actual objects that you can hide within. Means you can fly your little wee figher craft right into them. On top of that, they seem to affect and be affected by light in a somewhat realisitc way.

This is crazy stuff right here man, totally crazy.
really need to see that stuff with my own eyes. Wonder if they could manage to let the clouds be affected by planes. ;)

[Shogun]

yeah, if they manage to let us fly through the clouds and disrupt them with our planes, so we can do paintings in the sky, the art team will rise from semi god status to full god ;-)

[Levente]

it's pretty neat stuff... there are multiple cloud layers, each can be lit by the sun, each cast shadows, they make sunbeams, modulate naturally, get more dense and sparse as time pases, etc. right now it's all "programmer art" too, so once our environment art team gets ahold of it it'll be incredible.

yes sir thats what you get when you develop games exlusivly for PC, well done gentlemen keep up the awesome work. give us more screens plz, and how about a new trailer? :rofl:

[basti]

a new trailer?


The moment you pressed Submit Reply, someone in SOEs PR department startet shouting "NEEEVVVEERRRRR!"

[Talek Krell]

Multiple cloud layers? I hope that means that it's possible to have dogfights between cloud layers. :love:
http://probusiness1.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Between-The-Cloud-Layers.jpg
Sorry if that's kind of huge. >_>
Edit: Yay, it resized!

[FIREk]

Do this: Get yourself a usual PC (Quad Core, GTX 260 - 4xx), put everything on high, including this clouds, and tell us how much you lag.

Really matt, we need details on the entire technical stuff. All we know is josh saying that the game runs on Win XP. Is that indeed true? How exatly could those cloud stuff exist on DX9? Remember, Win XP does not go above DX9, because microsoft wanted to boost its crappy Vista and lied into our faces.

Look at how much amazing stuff CDP RED did with just DX9. It's also possible that the eye-candy will only be eye-candyish on DX10-enabled systems.

Also, Higby told me on Twitter that my spec (i5 750, 4GB, GTX560Ti) should be rocking in PS2. Considering I get great framerate in BF3 beta with damn fine visuals (too bad the game itself is meh), I'm pretty sure PS2 won't disappoint.

[Bags]

Look at how much amazing stuff CDP RED did with just DX9. It's also possible that the eye-candy will only be eye-candyish on DX10-enabled systems.

Also, Higby told me on Twitter that my spec (i5 750, 4GB, GTX560Ti) should be rocking in PS2. Considering I get great framerate in BF3 beta with damn fine visuals (too bad the game itself is meh), I'm pretty sure PS2 won't disappoint.

Cool, I'm upgrading to a 2500k and 8gb DDR3 this xmas and already have an overclocked 460GTX to go with it.

[cellinaire]

Funny. I think I heard this somewhere,

"Volumetric clouds and warfront smoke affecting air vehicles are still post-launch stuffs" =)

[Levente]

Funny. I think I heard this somewhere,

"Volumetric clouds and warfront smoke affecting air vehicles are still post-launch stuffs" =)

wat

[cellinaire]

wat


Ah, sorry if it was a bit misleading. I just referred to the dev interviews which were published on various well-known websites like 'massively.com' or 'fpsguru.com', etc... when I said that :cool:

[Talek Krell]

Ah, sorry if it was a bit misleading. I just referred to the dev interviews which were published on various well-known websites like 'massively.com' or 'fpsguru.com', etc... when I said that :cool:Which ones?

[Tikuto]

He watching Teletubbies 2.0.

teletubbies intro - YouTube

[cellinaire]

http://www.fpsguru.com/game/284/features/120/Planetside-2-at-SyndCon.html

"There will be a dynamic weather system that can affect warfare. Intense firefights causing a lot of smoke can affect the weather and they also spoke of volumetric clouds that can mask vehicles. That may not be in at launch, but is definitely in the long term plan."



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http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/il5og/hey_rplanetside_im_matt_higby_the_creative/

"We've got a really cool weather system design, I'm hoping we can squeeze it in for launch. Gameplay affecting things like volumetric fog/clouds shouldn't be able to be toggled."


...And I didn't even say they 'said or mentioned' that. Plz don't get me wrong here guys, will ya? :lol:

[duck]

Someone asked Higby:
"Will I be able to run this level of awesome at 40fps+ on an i5 750, 4 GB, GTX560Ti?"

He replied
"I hope so-new sky isn't even in our dev builds yet, let alone optimized for gameplay FR, but that spec should be rocking"

So yeah, we don't need beastly computers to run this beauty :)

Also, the PCGamer captain that said the game was to be released early next year is false according to him.

[Xyntech]

Yeah, I'm probably gonna need to upgrade this thing. Dual core 3.2 ghz, 2gb ddr2. Radeon 4870. Maybe I'll see what performance is like in beta before I decided exactly what to get.

[Bags]

Yeah, I'm probably gonna need to upgrade this thing. Dual core 3.2 ghz, 2gb ddr2. Radeon 4870. Maybe I'll see what performance is like in beta before I decided exactly what to get.

Switch the radeon with a GTX460 and we're in the same boat.

[SKYeXile]

Switch the radeon with a GTX460 and we're in the same boat.

never switch radeon to nvidia.

[Xyntech]

never switch radeon to nvidia.

Amen.

[Bags]

never switch radeon to nvidia.

1.) Do they pay you to fanboy?

2.) I didn't mean actually switch it :confused::confused::confused:

[Aractain]

I switched from AMD to Intel and Radeon to Nvidia and now my penis is larger.

[Graywolves]

I switched from AMD to Intel and Radeon to Nvidia and now my penis is larger.

Finally, something that works!

[Brusi]

He watching Teletubbies 2.0.

teletubbies intro - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuiynIn-g9s)

I just watch the first half of this... Not straight... WHat have i been missing out on?!

[Aractain]

Not straight... WHat have i been missing out on?!

Girls apparently, they are prettier than males - you should consider switching.

[SKYeXile]

1.) Do they pay you to fanboy?

2.) I didn't mean actually switch it :confused::confused::confused:

no, i just get satisfaction from it.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/960869-battlefield-3/60557657

lol tards, totally trolled... i even put the "..." anticipating their RAGE!

I also get further satisfaction from knowing my card wont randomly burst into a flamboyant display of pixels and jaggered edges probably due to overheating.

[Levente]

Someone asked Higby:
"Will I be able to run this level of awesome at 40fps+ on an i5 750, 4 GB, GTX560Ti?"

He replied
"I hope so-new sky isn't even in our dev builds yet, let alone optimized for gameplay FR, but that spec should be rocking"

So yeah, we don't need beastly computers to run this beauty :)

Also, the PCGamer captain that said the game was to be released early next year is false according to him.

But of course things change when you have 100 players at once on your screen and 10 galaxies parking around and 30 tanks rolling at once, then of course 560 wont be enough im sure.

[NapalmEnima]

But of course things change when you have 100 players at once on your screen and 10 galaxies parking around and 30 tanks rolling at once, then of course 560 wont be enough im sure.

Dynamic Level Of Detail: You set a frame rate goal, and it will scale down the textures and reduce the model complexity so it matches. More or less.

When the fit hits the shan, stuff will start to look less nice, but you' might be to busy trying to Stay Alive to notice.

[Aractain]

Thats the funny thing about games, if you give the player an amazing 10FPS vista at the start, then secretly remove half the options most would never notice.