Really weird. I guess since you've found the culprit, I don't have to go looking... Maybe I will take your earlier advice and enjoy my ignorant bliss
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Really weird. I guess since you've found the culprit, I don't have to go looking... Maybe I will take your earlier advice and enjoy my ignorant bliss
Classic speed-tree artefact. It shouldn't matter the distance you are from the tree. Just look up when you're underneath one and rotate your view. Oblivion used the same system. I think it's a good trade-off for the amount and quality of the foliage you can render.
I'm with bigtabs, rotating trees are annoying. I know of a game released in 2007 that rendered just as much if not more high quality foliage that even reacted to movements and gunshots, all without rotating even a little bit. Only drawback was that AA didn't work on alpha test stuff in that game, but again, 2007.
And did that game get blasted by a vocal majority of gamers who thought it's graphics didn't warrant the epic tradeoff in performance?
Whether they were right or wrong, that sort of negative feedback helps make these sorts of decisions. You and I and the other members of B3D might care that our trees 'rotate', just like we acknowledged that Crysis was doing a lot of things that nobody else had done 'for real' and the performance was warranted.
But our knowledge of the issues doesn't transfer to the grand majority of gamers, and Crysis wasn't gonna play on an X360, PS3 and PC simultaneously on release. If this is the worst we have to pick apart on a title that hit all three platforms and still somehow has enough graphics punch to do ALL that it does, then I think we're getting a bit nit-picky.
Whether they were right or wrong, that sort of negative feedback helps make these sorts of decisions. You and I and the other members of B3D might care that our trees 'rotate', just like we acknowledged that Crysis was doing a lot of things that nobody else had done 'for real' and the performance was warranted.
But our knowledge of the issues doesn't transfer to the grand majority of gamers, and Crysis wasn't gonna play on an X360, PS3 and PC simultaneously on release. If this is the worst we have to pick apart on a title that hit all three platforms and still somehow has enough graphics punch to do ALL that it does, then I think we're getting a bit nit-picky.
Crysis sold well I thought. And why should devs care about a bunch of whiners who'd probably pirate the game anyway, and use excuses like "it doesn't run well on my rig" to justify it. When they're rocking a P4 + 7800GTX and playing on maximum settings.
JC2 is a great graphical package. And it has room for improvement, thankfully or there wouldn't be much point to Beyond3D.
JC2 is a great graphical package. And it has room for improvement, thankfully or there wouldn't be much point to Beyond3D.
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It wasn't me! I like speed-tree. The rotating bits are the only downside in my book, and it's only from certain angles that they don't work. Until a game requires you to look up into the tree foliage from underneath (Bird Nest Hunter?) I think it's a good solution.
We don't use speed-tree though, we have our own system. We had "rotating trees" in JC1, but early in JC2 development we didn't use them, but for performance reasons they were added back again.
In unrelated news, there is new DLC available.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-dlc-just-cause-2/65085
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-dlc-just-cause-2/65085
LOL, love the boom pack! Sweeeeeeeet...
hahaha!! The telephone pole gag gives 'twisting in the wind' new meaning. I can't wait to get this game now.
Another graphical glitch, if you're using Eyefinity with bezel compensation then the 'digit boxes' that are supposed to show up when you're cracking a code or hijacking a vehicle are missing. Tried a couple of resolutions but it doesn't look like they're hidden by the bezels, rather they just don't seem to show period.
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Yet another graphical glitch?
Does this make my bum look big?
Does this make my bum look big?
Yeah, there's a known issue with those and Eyefinity. I believe someone's working on fixing that one.
Nah, I think it's the grenade.
:O You found the bubble gun?!?? I refuse to go looking for spoilers, so I've yet to find it. But one day... !!!
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