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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: TheMan on September 16, 2008, 05:23:24 PM
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I would like to get animated water back considering I can handle it well with my new video card. Even with my old one id put it on ::). It looked great. HtC please bring it back...!!! Skuzzy come on .. Ill give you a cookie ::)
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Animated water looked terrible.
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Animated water looked terrible.
your avatar looks terrible. But they still let you have it
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your avatar looks terrible. But they still let you have it
*GASP*
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Why would they re-implement something that they improved on? Are you going to ask for the old La5FN/7 graphics models back too?
In any case. You're merely jealous of my avatar .
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In any case. You're merely jealous of my avatar .
Ahahahahahahaah.
Ok now that thats out of the way , it wasn't an improvement. I can see if they upgraded the water. But they made it to where the water looks gross and you cant change it.
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are you going to ask for the old La5FN/7 graphics models back too?
That would be a step back. Puting any new water in the game regardless of what you think it looks nice or not would be a step foward and an optional one for those who cant handle that.
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IMO The problem with the animated water was that it only looked good from certain alts and it was very hard to see against during a fight (at least for me) I do believe there is a place for something like that, but if they bring it back, it would have to be better than it was before....not just the same thing.
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I would like to get animated water back considering I can handle it well with my new video card. Even with my old one id put it on ::). It looked great. HtC please bring it back...!!! Skuzzy come on .. Ill give you a cookie ::)
The animated water was removed because most of the player base didn't use it. It looked terrible from almost any altitude and it had a negative impact on most player's FPS.
ack-ack
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Ok now that thats out of the way , it wasn't an improvement. I can see if they upgraded the water. But they made it to where the water looks gross and you cant change it.
Old water
(http://www.freewebs.com/stepford_child/1095.jpg)
(I used one of Serenity's pics from the Everyday Screenshot thread since I don't have any that I saved from that long ago).
New water
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t5/AK_Comrade/newwater.jpg)
I think you're forgetting how horrible the old water looked.
I don't remember exactly what animated water did but I seem to remember that it added twinkles or something that looked like... crap.
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Everything looks better in the second pic. No pastels, thank you very much.
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Everything looks better in the second pic. No pastels, thank you very much.
That's my 3./JG1 skin BTW, should be coming out in the next skin pack :D
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That's my 3./JG1 skin BTW, should be coming out in the next skin pack :D
Is that an F-4 or G-2?
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Ack Ack you say it drops frames true. It was not mandatory , you could put it on if you liked it or turned it off if you didn't.
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Ack Ack you say it drops frames true. It was not mandatory , you could put it on if you liked it or turned it off if you didn't.
Furthermore , if they were going to take it out , they should bring it back new and improved.
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109F. First skin I did based completely on photographs.
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t5/AK_Comrade/Knoke109F.jpg)
http://heinzknokewebsite.com/My-Site/The_planes.htm (http://heinzknokewebsite.com/My-Site/The_planes.htm)
</hijack> :D
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yours has too many wheels :)
nice skin
your avatar looks terrible. But they still let you have it
best come back of the year! :t
If anyone wants to remember what animated water looks like watch this old film i made a few years back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ecaZ3KWZHE
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Animated water looked terrible.
yup, it looked like a badly tuned analog tv (we still have them here....)
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Furthermore , if they were going to take it out , they should bring it back new and improved.
Waffle IS a role model, use him wisely. He played and played and played without demanding much. Then he figured out how to make cool things that had a great benefit to the game and the community. Now, he's an employee and still making things better. Maybe you should make some cool water textures and submit them for HTC to decide on their use? You too could have that plush office in Grapevine, making thousands upon thousands of...well....whatever they pay Waffle.
:aok
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yours has too many wheels :)
nice skin
best come back of the year! :t
If anyone wants to remember what animated water looks like watch this old film i made a few years back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ecaZ3KWZHE
The shot at about 45 seconds of that wingless FW coming down right on the camera, that is just sweet. One of the coolest shots I've seen in an AH film. Too bad the instant disappearing of the wings when shot off is so noticably fake. That's a problem we still have, and is much more important than shimmering water.
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Thanks trotter, I always loved that shot myself. It was a long time ago and i just got lucky with the angle. I am not sure but i think it was a film viewer bug that erases the wings rather than a game bug, im not sure i remember.
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If I don't play with framerate cap my framerate is bouncing between 150-600 at 1900x1200. Unlike several others on here I've got a pc from this millennium.. however, the animated water was indeed rather sh*te. It was much harder on the eye when you were fighting on deck over water...
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I would like to get animated water back considering I can handle it well with my new video card. Even with my old one id put it on ::). It looked great. HtC please bring it back...!!! Skuzzy come on .. Ill give you a cookie ::)
ya, because they took it away onl because YOUR machine couldn't handle it. :rolleyes:
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Ack Ack you say it drops frames true. It was not mandatory , you could put it on if you liked it or turned it off if you didn't.
Chances are that Skuzzy would be willing to bet a Double Cheese WHATTABURGER that he'd get blasted with phone calls and e-mails from players complaining about single digit frame rates because they enabled 3D water and forgot they did it.
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The animated water was removed because most of the player base didn't use it. It looked terrible from almost any altitude and it had a negative impact on most player's FPS.
ack-ack
Amen to that ack-ack. Without looking at your altimeter, it was real hard to judge where the surface of the water was because of the way it met the horizon or something. At least it seemed that way to me.
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You too could have that plush office in Grapevine, making thousands upon thousands of...well....whatever they pay Waffle.
Waffles?
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The screenshot posted is NOT a representation of the old "animated water" effect. Don't confuse different water textures on different maps or different tile updates for the animated water effect.
Animated water was removed in 2.10. I can't find too many screenshots of it on the forums (most of them are very old, and the images get taken down over the years). I did find this:
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/384_1106972318_high17s.jpg)
From 20k the water looked okay, but below that it started looking bad... then sad... then "smurfy" and it screwed your FPS and your depth perception horribly because there were no real waves, just light highlights.
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I remember animated water from the viewpoint of an LVT was pretty sweet. Not real by any means but I enjoyed it.