marconelly!
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Best underwater I've ever seen in a gameWhat about MGS2:SoL?
Best underwater I've ever seen in a gameWhat about MGS2:SoL?
marconelly! said:Best underwater I've ever seen in a gameWhat about MGS2:SoL?
Well I did play it at E3 a bit, looked a lot like the first oneMarconelly said:Hmm, Faf try to get your hands on Splashdown 2 demo. Water is deinitely 'geometrically' animated with waves and such, but it also has that defined everchanging texture to it.
london-boy said:yeah well of course the only way to have realistic water is geometry.. after all pixel effects are "mapping" onto flat polygons... if a *decent* 3dimensional wave structure is not there, u'd have a flat ass *shiny* thing...
Grall said:london-boy said:yeah well of course the only way to have realistic water is geometry.. after all pixel effects are "mapping" onto flat polygons... if a *decent* 3dimensional wave structure is not there, u'd have a flat ass *shiny* thing...
...And as we all know, flat asses - shiny or not - are SO BORING.
Buns should make good of their name, heh heh!
Anyway, water is overall too overdone these days IMO. It looks so wrong to have all this (often VERY shiny water, and then only standard flat-looking textured polys for everything else. I'd rather be without the shiny water in that case. Morrowind is a prime example of this, why pixel shade just the water? That way it's just a pointless gimmick feature. On top of everything else, it's not even a very good pixel-shaded surface.
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well i dont know about u, but i just bought baldurs gate and i've been playing with the water for like hours..... it never stops to amaze me... best trick is diving in, jump in and out to make a whole messy wavy thing... so cool...
now THAT os a whole lot of geometry if u ask me, and a whole lot of cool maths involved in the waves' behaviour.
flat asses should be banned from the boards. actually lets make a law, whoever has a flat ass is liable to 4 weeks intense workout to develop a nice little bum hehehe
anyway, yeah shiny pretty water with everything else flat is pretty useless... the little lake in ICO was just amazing. a little bit of water in the middle of the game, not overused and u dont really see that kind of water anywhere else in the game (the water at the last part of the game looks different). just purrrfect...
i must admit that it IS overused in BGA, as pretty as it is, they put water EVERYWHERE... they must have been very proud of the effect they achieved, they could have called the game BG:Waterworld.. and star Kevin Costner in it
Yesterday I watched Eurogamer's last video about water in videogames (from retro to not-so-retro), and after that I looked for some info in here. I found your comments pretty funny and wondered if you still think the same about BG's water after aaaaaaaaaaall this time.
Do you still think that flat asses should be banned?
1994... We're old. </offtopic>I had internet at home back in 1997.
I'm an old flat assed dude.
1993. I still had an Amiga then so you needed to get a TCP/IP stack as that wasn't part of the OS.1994... We're old. </offtopic>
1993. I still had an Amiga then so you needed to get a TCP/IP stack as that wasn't part of the OS.