Any rumors about improving the terrain?

[Easyscor]

Nathan60/Hamhock posted this in the General forum. I'd put this terrain up against almost any of the screenshot posted in this thread. And, it's playable on most of our existing hardware.

[NatCigg]

Graphics? Are you talking about graphics? Whos talking about graphics? Cmon, graphics?
 
 

[morfiend]

I'd be fine if they just made a more realistic layout of the land. Barns by big open fields, instead of in the middle of the woods. Some grain in the fields (give an option for a solid block of grain with texturing, or individual stalks if your computer can handle it), hedges and trees marking the boundaries for the fields...


Even with the current quality of graphics, the game would  FEEL more realistic.

  Wouldn't you need to actually play the game to feel more realistic?





     

[bj229r]

If the excitement of a long, drawn-out life and death dogfight doesn't keep you here, fancy graphics surely wont

[MarineUS]

If the excitement of a long, drawn-out life and death dogfight doesn't keep you here, fancy graphics surely wont

You'd be surprised....

[fbEagle]

Depends on what details you mean.  Higher resolution textures, sure.  Higher polygon count terrain and trees, no.  Why?  Because if the polygons are different you will most assuredly encounter a situation where some tank thinks it is hull down or concealed and to the guy he is fighting who is using another detail setting the tank is exposed.

 While I agree the graphics are dated, lets be realistic here.  Looking at games from 10 years ago they did not look as good as AH does now, particularly on the recently redone units.

Fine 5 years ago... And yes i know that you would have problems with two people using different settings. Just a thought.

do you currently have all graphics options to the highest they can go with a steady 60fps frame rate?

And Really?? That's a lot like calling tech support and having the guy ask if the computer is plugged in isn't it? Yes I have textures maxed out. I used to use the 8092 shadows or whatever they were before HTC got rid of them. And just because your next post is going to try to prove me wrong it is a custom built gaming rig from ibuypower. 

[Easyscor]

If the excitement of a long, drawn-out life and death dogfight doesn't keep you here, fancy graphics surely wont

That depends on the arena. If the arena is empty, the graphics and terrain features are even more important to keep the player interested until someone shows up to provide that life and death dogfight that you're talking about.

[olds442]

We don't all have the money to buy a $10,000 setup like yours    

LMAO 10,000$$$ LMAO you understand a 700$ computer could run AH with full detail

[coombz]

I do not understand how can some of you state so firmly that the better and more PC demanding graphics increases the number of players. Do you have any statistics to back up your opinion?

Have you seen the amount of players War Thunder has? 

it's a terrible game, but a lot of people play because it looks like it was made this decade

[coombz]

also the AH engine, and our current hardware  (not the mythical $10,000 dollar super rigs) is capable of this:


http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,344662.0.html


but we don't have it

?

personally I feel we've got a big enough plane set to play around with, it'd be nice for some of our $15 a month to go towards getting some better looking maps to fly them in   (just my opinion)

[RedBull1]

LMAO 10,1000$$$ LMAO you understand a 700$ computer could run AH with full detail

Well done, you're correcting my 6 months old post! Boy, you sure showed me

and if it means that much to you, I was referring to Pand who has a multi-thousand dollar setup by the looks of it, smart one

And 10,1000$ huh?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Nathan60/Hamhock posted this in the General forum. I'd put this terrain up against almost any of the screenshot posted in this thread. And, it's playable on most of our existing hardware.

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Photoshopped pictures are not going to make your point very well you know. Some game engines actually feature in-game effects like that.

[Easyscor]

Photoshopped pictures are not going to make your point very well you know. Some game engines actually feature in-game effects like that.

If I read your reply correctly, it sounds like you think that screen shot is Photoshopped.

Clearly you haven't been in the AvA since Thursday night. Maybe you should go look before you say anything more.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

If I read your reply correctly, it sounds like you think that screen shot is Photoshopped.

Clearly you haven't been in the AvA since Thursday night. Maybe you should go look before you say anything more.

Clearly you're blind to miss the blur added to the screenshot. AHII graphics engine does not have focus blur effects unlike many other modern engines do. I'm not saying they would be very useful in most usage cases online but when posting screenshots, stick to unphotoshopped versions.

When you remove the artificial depth created by the blur in the screenshot, all that is left is unproportional size of objects and low detail level in that image.

[Easyscor]

Clearly you're blind to miss the blur added to the screenshot.

Looks to me like he reduced it and turned it into a jpg for posting.

I should know, I built the terrain.

Like I posted, you can try to prove me a liar simply by going into the AvA or spawning a custom arena with avachanl. Go ahead, try.