Author Topic: WOW AH2 2.02 details (Read 2046 times)

whels · « **on:** November 24, 2004, 02:45:58 PM »

these are nice.

The biggest advancement in 2.02 will be graphics. With the new terrain stuff in place, you’ll see improvements in that area and 2.02 will add a new and expanded library of graphic effects. Sudz has been working on this and he’s already produced a lot of cool stuff. He’s got a new fire effects in place, water splashing off of the PT boat, vehicles kicking up dust trails, guns making smoke puffs when you fire them, tank turrets getting blown off, spent cartridge casings coming out of the ejection chutes on a plane or kicking out the ejection port on a manual position, smoke coming out the exhaust stack when you start up, a lot of stuff like that. As a whole, his work will add a tremendous amount to the immersion factor as we’ve been getting by with some pretty dated effects and lots of missing ones.

oboe · « **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2004, 02:50:32 PM »

Agreed, as long as they aren't FR killers or are optionally selectable.

I think the 'dead' objects are going to be great, too. Finally when a town is destroyed, it won't be flat and empty. Lots of rubble and broken building foundations....

Arlo · « **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2004, 02:55:33 PM »

SunKing · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2004, 03:32:47 PM »

Bring on the eye-candy!

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2004, 03:37:51 PM »

ROFLMAO

Leave it to Arlo to have not only a link to a picture of Barney Rubble handy, but an AUTOGRAPHED one.

You have WAAAAAY too much time on your hands man.

Arlo · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2004, 03:40:59 PM »

Neh. I am a master of the search engine.

SLO · « **Reply #6 on:** November 24, 2004, 03:55:05 PM »

sounds great whels, might even bring back some folks who left...

hope so anyways...

Pongo · « **Reply #7 on:** November 24, 2004, 04:28:13 PM »

They should do the puff of extra exaust when the throttle is firewalled as well.

Westy · « **Reply #8 on:** November 24, 2004, 04:43:19 PM »

That is good news Whels! HTC has added a lot of things the players have wanted. Can't wait to see more GFX effects such as exhaust smoke. Stil hoping to see cowl cooling flaps someday

I'm of the "raise the bar " tribe and look forward to improvments in not only eye candy but gameplay.
That being said the most notable item for me was Pyro saying, "Once HT finishes up work on the terrain system, his time will be spent almost entirely on ToD development and we expect that to start progressing very quickly. ...

WoOot!

whels · « **Reply #9 on:** November 24, 2004, 05:23:27 PM »

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Originally posted by Westy
That is good news Whels! HTC has added a lot of things the players have wanted. Can't wait to see more GFX effects such as exhaust smoke. Stil hoping to see cowl cooling flaps someday
I'm of the "raise the bar " tribe and look forward to improvments in not only eye candy but gameplay.
That being said the most notable item for me was Pyro saying, "Once HT finishes up work on the terrain system, his time will be spent almost entirely on ToD development and we expect that to start progressing very quickly. ...

WoOot!

Baaaaaaaaaaaaa Westy,

i think HT raises the bar the right way, alittle at a time.
he raised it alot from AH1 to AH2 and got alot of complaints.

so alittle here, alittle there is better.

TOD will have #s for a month or 2 i think, then dwendle down to
CT levels unfortunantly.

whels

jpeg · « **Reply #10 on:** November 24, 2004, 06:03:24 PM »

Whels I agree about the TOD numbers, I'd rather have HTC spend time on stuff for MA and planes in general.

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Originally posted by whels
Baaaaaaaaaaaaa Westy,

i think HT raises the bar the right way, alittle at a time.
he raised it alot from AH1 to AH2 and got alot of complaints.

so alittle here, alittle there is better.

TOD will have #s for a month or 2 i think, then dwendle down to
CT levels unfortunantly.

whels

Kweassa · « **Reply #11 on:** November 24, 2004, 07:21:01 PM »

No mention of hitsprites..

Arrrrgh!!!

AaronM2 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 24, 2004, 09:59:01 PM »

hehe hope it starts to look like IL2

MOIL · « **Reply #13 on:** November 24, 2004, 10:24:03 PM »

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Originally posted by SLO
sounds great whels, might even bring back some folks who left...

hope so anyways...

with puzzled look on face Some people left?

Mitsu · « **Reply #14 on:** November 24, 2004, 10:58:52 PM »

Water splash, Hit stripes, Smokes, Vehicle Smokes, Detailed clouds, Clouds layers, Water animations, and more realistic sky color?