[Black Wolf]

Because we have these, and you don't.



I have been resisting the temptation to post this since about 5 PM this afternoon. It is now 12:20 tomorrow morning. I have low powers of resistance. I'll leave it up to Flipside as to whether he posts any of the other screenies. Keep in mind the following things

That water moves.
If you crash into it, you can go under it and take damage.
We can simulate night, day or dawn, as well as battle conditions you wouldn;t imagine.

In short, Flipside is a god.

[aldo_14]

Neat.  Coded?

[Bobboau]

no it looks like they just made some ubber HTL model

[mikhael]

You've got rainbow blobs and we don't? How... quaint.

[aldo_14]

That space debris(?) is FUBAR-ed there, tho.  I'm surprised there's no use of env. mapping for the 'sea'.

[Gank]

How can it be 12.20 tomorrow morning?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Gank
How can it be 12.20 tomorrow morning?

Tis in Oz.  So it's tommorrow to us.

[Shinobi]

Night fighting.... sort of.

[Darkage]

Sorry, i don't like it.

[Vasudan Admiral]

the env mapping is why everything looks so bright - i forgot to turn off/down the ambient lighting.

here are the other pics: (also with ambient lighting on full by accident )




oh, and the water doesn't just move, it's animated so well it looks better than most current games, and the shine and environment maps make it look quite real.
...except for the space debris, yeah

i'll see about getting some with propperly set ambient lighting shots later on.
also, for the actual islands in-game we will have larger land masses, better beaches etc, plus certain.....other....features.

all kudos to Flipside

[Star Dragon]

I am OFFICIALLY impressed... Question as those crab/squidlike machines mechas? Can they scuttle around like a normal mecha or are they stationary (or hover like a suacer)? Now if only the gravity problem canbe solved we can have ground units and mechas that act normally. Then I can use it to go back and make all the robotech missions I had to skip cause they weren't in air/space (like the SDF-1 ambush on Mar's surface!)... ALL HAIL THE NEW FS2 GODS!

[LAW ENFORCER]

ooooo! so can you implement hostile waters?

heh!

[Gregster2k]

At this rate, they'll make an entire continent some of these days...

are any of these modifications going to be put in the actual SCP or are they entirely separate? (i hope they arent separate )

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

This is definately something we haven't seen too much on FS2

Looking good, but I'd really like to see some shots without the ambient light.

[SadisticSid]

So long as you can bounce off the islands I'll say 'neat' for the graphics and 'meh' for the usefulness of this in any game.

[Stryke 9]

LE: Exactly my thoughts. If only, a moddable HW equivalent would definitely earn my nomination for "greatest game ever made, ever".

And it's... well, it's ugly. It doesn't have to be ugly, with some decent textures and so on it could be downright cool, but at this point it's an eyesore. The sky looks fine, particularly if it's animated, everything else ranges from "nothing spectactular" to "this had better be a beta". I'll give the robot/bunker things the benefit of the doubt that it's all the lighting, but for God's sake fix the land texture, and the sea could look much more like an actual sea- see the aforementioned Hostile Waters, even without the fantastic breakers that game did it'd still be a significant improvement. And if you can get those... christ, that would kick ass.

[Shinobi]

The is a WIP. More screenies later.

[Nico]

I agree that the island is kind of ugly.
Mmh, where did Aki put his macross island model? ( like you're the only ones having stuff like that )

[Shinobi]

More shots without environment reflection and less ambient light.

This is also possibly the first time an 'Aesir' ship has been seen in public

'tis a freighter before you ask.









And here's one showing off Lightspeeds new Hornet missiles...(and the dodgy WIP island textures )

[Hunter]

this had better be a beta

Dude, it's not even an Alpha, let alone a Beta. I imagine after some creative meetings they'll see what can be done to improve the aesthetics.