Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Lukanian-7 on April 12, 2008, 09:52:22 AM
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I theorize that there could be very small changes, and/or additions made to improve the graphical look of the game, and make a noticably good difference with little, to no, fps changes.
Little Details, Such as weather, are awesome looks in flight sims, especially with the flight accuracy of AH, however weather bogs down computers, so it was taken off, here's an idea! Perhaps we reduce visual range accordingly, Which would Improve Fp/s, change color of given texture, and add wind, which we have already, i do not promote precipitation, the war was not fought in it, but i think "crummy" weather is fine. Also, to stay in subject, other details are fine, snow-capped mountains could be attained with altitude limits (ie. "Anything above (x) ft. Renders 'SNWCP.res'" or something). I'm sure bugs would show up, but nothing beyond maintenance, right?
Also a texture redo could dramatically improve the look of AH, such as, my pet peeve, the bullet impacts, could be redone took look as if it were an impact versus the Batman style "POW" "BANG" hit. Again with textures, could be grass, dirt, slush, etc. but illused to look as if they are 3-Dimentional, Such as Google Earth's imagery, or Scaling light into consideration while making these "Illusive Textures" Which brings me to my next paragraph.
I'd like to see a newer lighting system, truthfully, if you look around right now if there were'nt shadows and darknesses and light rays, etc. it'd look like a 2002 PS2 game. I'm not sure how exactly demanding it is for dynamic lighting, but if it can be made to mimmick real-life lights, models would look much realer.
That's It For Now,
Lukanian-7
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Point of interest, Weather wasn't removed for performance issues. It was removed because of whiners.
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Point of interest, Weather wasn't removed for performance issues. It was removed because of whiners.
Aw They Got Their Way, Huh?
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Its amazing how large a difference a small change can make. You know how everybody flipped about a large FPS decrease when shooting right after the big update? Im pretty sure thats partly because the ping .bmp was changed, and made larger. Now that its been made smaller again (though, I think its still larger than it was) FPS is fine.
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Aw They Got Their Way, Huh?
They always do.
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A little variation in the monochrome terrains would make a big difference and probably cost little/nothing in FPS. Ireland isn't as unrelentingly green-on-green-all-the-time-with-some-more-green-splashed-on as our MA terrains are.
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I don't know about the rest of you, but graphics are low on my list of priorities. If it can be done without a big fps hit, and without pulling resources away from aircraft development, then that's fine.
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I don't know about the rest of you, but graphics are low on my list of priorities. If it can be done without a big fps hit, and without pulling resources away from aircraft development, then that's fine.
What he said.
I'd rather have ultra-accurate flight models and/or more a/c and vehicles than having a pretty-looking terrain. Besides, what are you looking at more anyway? The box of bombers you're about to shoot down, or the terrain below you?
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I want weather fronts... :cry
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Greetings,
In the map builder forum there are some people who make amazining good terrain tiles. I would bet they would donate them all to HiTech/Skuzzy just to have other people see them as well.
While changing the tiles on a given map may sound easy, I really don't know enough about the online maps to know if what the impact would be on FPS (I doubt any), RAM (probly at least some), or hard drive storage requirements (it would take at least some room to store the needed tiles)
I don't think new tiles would take away from game development as there are players who can/will do the work - it will need to be cleared by HTC as submitted terrains are tho. But some new terrain tiles would be nice, especially for the GV portion of the game.
Regards,
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Point of interest, Weather wasn't removed for performance issues. It was removed because of whiners.
Well, on the same note, the Bish and Knights whined about RJO to get the ENY limiter on board. That was one Sunday a week too.
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and that has anything to do with the thread how?