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Title: Fridays Dump
Post by: hitech on May 23, 2014, 03:36:26 PM
The village farm tile this is just average clutter in tiles non destructible

In all shots for testing I was about 100 FPS.

(http://www.hitechcreations.com/images/stories/dales/village1.jpg)
(http://www.hitechcreations.com/images/stories/dales/village2.jpg)
(http://www.hitechcreations.com/images/stories/dales/village3.jpg)

HiTech
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Volron on May 23, 2014, 03:39:31 PM
 :x :x :x
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: olds442 on May 23, 2014, 03:40:42 PM
Idk if I have been playing too much of other games but it seems like a step back compared to what we saw before. The first picture really looks "eh" to me, the lighting is way off I think.
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: JimmyC on May 23, 2014, 03:47:56 PM
Great. ..I likee
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: FLS on May 23, 2014, 03:48:22 PM
That looks great. Are you adding water? Ponds, lakes, and rivers?
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: morfiend on May 23, 2014, 04:09:04 PM
 Wow a 100 FPS on that antique machine you coad on!  I have almost the same machine,different vidcard but pretty much everything else is the same and I retired it almost 4 years ago...... :devil


   It's sounding like the new engine will run smoother and be easier to run on most computers! :aok



   :salute

 PS: the art work is a huge step up,keep at it!
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: waystin2 on May 23, 2014, 04:10:35 PM
Nice!  I want to go to there. :aok
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Nathan60 on May 23, 2014, 04:14:05 PM
Looks better than my Friday dump, will these villages be near spawn points for gvs often, or are they going to be fairly scarce? I know on custom maps they will be all over the place.
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Volron on May 23, 2014, 04:16:27 PM
Could you imagine if they decided to add true artillery into AH?  Setup inside these villages to shell a town/base.  GV's covering the ways in/out of the town.  Of course, ords would need a porkin first but I think ye get the gest. :x
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: LCADolby on May 23, 2014, 04:51:52 PM
Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout :aok
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Arlo on May 23, 2014, 04:53:59 PM
Looks great! It will definately entice me out of the tower so the ENY hit my side takes'll be warranted.  ;) (J/K I appreciate your hard work.)
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: ozrocker on May 23, 2014, 04:56:23 PM
He said "dump".

Looks nice  :aok

I would love to see farm fields with, hmm let's see. Corn, tomatoes, etc.

So we can run through, destroying the farmer's crops.
Maybe have an old hag chasing vehicle with a broom :rofl

And Sheep, of course :aok
                                                                                                                                                         :cheers: Oz
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Swoop on May 23, 2014, 05:07:09 PM
That 3rd pic reminds me of screenshots from Microprose's B-17 - II, looks great.  However, I remember being very disappointed to find that the trees were just painted on the terrain tile in B-17 - II.  No such disappointment with AH2.

Question:  Will the new engine be able to handle vertical cliff faces along coast lines?
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Dragon Tamer on May 23, 2014, 05:26:42 PM
Remind me again because I'm an idiot, HTC uses an NVidia 9500 for testing right?
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: scott66 on May 23, 2014, 05:32:41 PM
WTFG Hitech ! Me like!! Thank you sir :rock
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Gman on May 23, 2014, 05:46:10 PM
Looks great, I can't wait to see it all come together. 
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: FLOOB on May 23, 2014, 05:51:47 PM
I think some of you guys should install air warrior just to compare and see how far we've come.
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Arlo on May 23, 2014, 05:56:02 PM
I think some of you guys should install air warrior just to compare and see how far we've come.

My memory still works (and I loved AW)..  :D
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Max on May 23, 2014, 05:57:17 PM
Remind me again because I'm an idiot, HTC uses an NVidia 9500 for testing right?

IIRC it's a 9800GTX+
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Xavier on May 23, 2014, 06:07:05 PM
Now that's just gorgeous...any estimates on when the new terrain will be ready?

Two weeks?  :P
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Chilli on May 23, 2014, 06:11:37 PM
Definitely looking promising.  First IN to note the difference in grass textures near buildings.  Before the grass looked like mine, overgrown from playing too much AH.

Please, Nathan no pics of your Friday's Dump.  :mad:

Olds, these are some low detail screen shots, you wouldn't really notice them that much at all flying around.  This much detail for something barely noticeable in game is huge, especially considering the lack of big framerate hits.  Zooming in at close range and seeing that vegetation coming to life swaying with the breeze certainly rocks the cradle for me.  :rock

Only one suggestion (hate to even mention at this late point in development) add some conifers / evergreens, those needle leaves would blend very nicely at lower details becoming very wispy (almost can hear artist dude...."I think a tree lives......right ............. there!").
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: BaldEagl on May 23, 2014, 06:44:46 PM
 :aok
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: phatzo on May 23, 2014, 07:32:08 PM
My memory still works (and I loved AW)..  :D
I have warbirds 2.77 on my computer and that is archaic.
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: hitech on May 23, 2014, 07:58:45 PM
Definitely looking promising.  First IN to note the difference in grass textures near buildings.  Before the grass looked like mine, overgrown from playing too much AH.

Please, Nathan no pics of your Friday's Dump.  :mad:

Olds, these are some low detail screen shots, you wouldn't really notice them that much at all flying around.  This much detail for something barely noticeable in game is huge, especially considering the lack of big framerate hits.  Zooming in at close range and seeing that vegetation coming to life swaying with the breeze certainly rocks the cradle for me.  :rock

Only one suggestion (hate to even mention at this late point in development) add some conifers / evergreens, those needle leaves would blend very nicely at lower details becoming very wispy (almost can hear artist dude...."I think a tree lives......right ............. there!").

Your seeing 1 tile type of 20

Hitech
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Vraciu on May 24, 2014, 01:10:41 AM
Looks great!
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on May 24, 2014, 02:51:38 AM
I like the effort of putting trees around fields and roads like in Europe  :aok

Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: -ammo- on May 24, 2014, 03:05:12 AM
That's beautiful.

HiTech, any chance you can give us a rough estimate of time window of release?
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Chilli on May 24, 2014, 03:36:51 AM
Your seeing 1 tile type of 20

Hitech

 :O nuthah wish granted  :rock
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Bodhi on May 24, 2014, 04:07:52 AM
Thank you for the update.  It is nice to see the work you are putting into the game.  I am looking forward to seeing the changes implemented.
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: kvuo75 on May 24, 2014, 08:57:23 AM
hitech: you're going to do beta testing period still, right ?

Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: noobnite on May 24, 2014, 11:54:03 AM
And for all of us who have the same computers that sent Apollo 13 to the moon, how nasty will the system requirements be?


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Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Arlo on May 24, 2014, 01:00:57 PM
And for all of us who have the same computers that sent Apollo 13 to the moon, how nasty will the system requirements be?


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Have you ever broken 10 fps? (I actually remember suffering such.)
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: MrKrabs on May 24, 2014, 01:06:07 PM
I saw no sheep!  :old:
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: Gard06 on May 24, 2014, 03:55:10 PM
Hitech,

This new platform look nice.  but will older systems work on this?
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Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: steely07 on May 24, 2014, 07:50:15 PM
niiiiiice!
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: PJ_Godzilla on May 24, 2014, 08:05:24 PM
Nice!  I want to go to there. :aok

Nice! I want to go there, too... to rape and pillage and shoot the place up.

BTW, I still want a persistent battlefield - with downed aircraft, corpses, burning hulks, evvathang...
Title: Re: Fridays Dump
Post by: FLS on May 24, 2014, 08:33:38 PM
And for all of us who have the same computers that sent Apollo 13 to the moon, how nasty will the system requirements be?


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You may see improvement. In any case it shouldn't be worse according to what's been posted so far as long as your video chip supports shader model 3.