Tuesday, September 8, 2009

New Trees

The New World used to have a lot nicer trees than the currently running version. However, for some reason the tree generator that was used to make them, always made the medium level of detail model kinda horrific. All the brances were flying in the air etc. While something like this could've been expected from the Old World, I'd rather avoid such things in the new one.

After some evaluating and thinking, I came to the conclusion that it's better to do a small investment and get trees that will look good in all levels of detail yet still have the same or smaller polycount than the generated ones. The trees have now been replaced in the New World with a lot nicer ones that were even made in such a way that I can use most of the old trees' textures in them if I so want to.

Even something as minor as trees can have a hyge impact on the overall graphics of the game.



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