This weeks status update.

[Chilli]

There need's to be a factory tween those trees and the hill 

Agreed!!  Where else are the Whos from Whoville gonna work?  ..... and me place my bombs...

[Midway]

Agreed!!  Where else are the Whos from Whoville gonna work?  ..... and me place my bombs...

 

[scott66]

 

[10thmd]

All I can say is 

[Mitsu]

Looks great.

Will old 3D model planes (ki61 ki67...etc) are updated?

[save]

no, only the Bf110 and the sheep's will be fixed

[Megalodon]

There need's to be a factory tween those trees and the hill  

 A tank factory   It does look cool 

[Mitsu]

no, only the Bf110 and the sheep's will be fixed

I quit!

 

[SmokinLoon]

Wow.  That looks really nice.  It will be a big improvement to what AH currently has, and I'm content with what AH currently has.   

My question is how will this terrain be applied to the current maps? 

[HB555]

I noticed that too. On the other hand also the houses look like abandoned, so that could explain the high grass. Maybe the people had been evacuated in the sample we saw?

Seriously talking, the grass in both the current version and in this sample looks like wasteland where a random willowherb pushes through the trash. In natural meadows there's sparse straws growing taller than the underbrush looking exactly like we have in AH, but here it's magnified tenfold which makes it look more like "A Bug's Life" than a massive tank rolling on grass.

 

New plane number 173 will be a Craftsman riding mower. When there are no missions, we can mow that grass, pick up the trash,  and make it all pretty. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

New plane number 173 will be a Craftsman riding mower. When there are no missions, we can mow that grass, pick up the trash,  and make it all pretty.  

Not a bad idea at all! AH could attract some of the Minecraft folks. In fact, why not let players build additional defenses such as pillboxes, AAA stations etc. around fields?  

Imagine the fun of bombing someones 1 month work to smitherines?  

On the flip side, bored players could build a 'maginot line' behind the front that would have additional fortifications to beat before bombing to submission.

[Slate]

 
    It looks like it's coming together great with the new graphics. 

   But My one concern would be (and the same one I have with the current game) the color. I see too much green. Like the old TVs I would be messing with the hue to get a better combination of colors. Black Hills, brown farms and fields, and river and lake colors interspersed to break up the green monotony.
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[Traveler]

Lets see, swaying trees and grass or clouds? 

[LCADolby]

Great improvment. I do understand it's a work in progress. What might make the arena more believable is to place trees along fields and roads like in Europe, not ramdomly scatered. Cliffs of Dover is doing a pretty good job at it for immersion purposes.

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This pic should go along way, now you need a typical overcast sky, perhaps with some rain in places so they know what weather looks like.

[wpeters]

Great work. It looks better all the time. 

Abandonment of the buildings remind me a lot of DayZ..  Hitech is creating a Apocalyptic graphics engine.