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[Hamma]

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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]

Originally Posted by 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....." *

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:

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.


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!

It may also explain the tissues on the right*

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

[basti]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.