LOCK ON - BLACK SHARK PIX

[krel01]

These screenshots from helis and lots of tanks are very impressive.

I think there cannot be more details -

 

........................................BUT

 

what about the landscape? What about the ground textures and buildings?

 

.......................GEEE THESE TREES REALLY SUCK !!!!

 

It was discussed to have SPEEDTREE included. Has this all been dropped by now?

[TekaTeka]

You can not get everything at once.

Or do you want to wait another year or two for the improved landscape?

[Flexman_UK]

No Speedtree. It may have been discussed by us 'Joes' on the forums but that's all.

 

I don't think the trees are that bad, not in the video I've seen of the ABRIS planning and mission execution, the pilot is hovering over a tree line at the engagement point. They look like they totally do the job. Almost too well.

 

I've used the Speedtree library myself, I'll just say that with the detail on the cockpits and the terrain that's offered in Flaming Cliffs you would be devoting a lot of CPU time (Speedtree is CPU intensive) to eye candy. It would be more of a slideshow.

[britgliderpilot]

No Speedtree. It may have been discussed by us 'Joes' on the forums but that's all.

 

I don't think the trees are that bad, not in the video I've seen of the ABRIS planning and mission execution, the pilot is hovering over a tree line at the engagement point. They look like they totally do the job. Almost too well.

 

I've used the Speedtree library myself, I'll just say that with the detail on the cockpits and the terrain that's offered in Flaming Cliffs you would be devoting a lot of CPU time (Speedtree is CPU intensive) to eye candy. It would be more of a slideshow.

 

I don't know the details of speedtree, but if it requires more CPU cycles to run than the normal trees then I'm all for waiting until the system specs catch up!

 

 

I wouldn't worry about low level detail, it's fine as is :)

 

Watch the Black Helicopters vid for demonstration of more combat in BS - 'tis a good piece of movie-making.

[weasel75]

Can one fly thrue trees?

Do they stop/deflect bullets?

[krel01]

You can not get everything at once.

Or do you want to wait another year or two for the improved landscape?

 

Yes TekaTeka you are right! NOT ANOTHER YEAR PLEASE !!

As we won't see the game for Christmas this year everybody is sitting and waiting.

 

What kind of trees were used in GUNSHIP! in 2000? I always kind of liked this landscape.

See pics:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/gunship/screenindex.html

[hitman]

Heres a question. Since these tanks are really good at sniping helis out of the sky, are BS pilots going to have to avoid 105mm projectiles like missiles?

[weasel75]

Billbaords. The same kind we have in lockon.

 

On for me the billboard-trees are sufficient, even in A-10/Su-25. Lets see how they work in BS ...

However, it should not be possible to fly thrue .. and I hope they stop/deflect missiles/rounds ...

[Solidburn]

Agreed Krel01...let's hope we can get Black Shark within the next couple of weeks or hopefully no longer than month or two.

 

 

I don't know about anyone else....but I'm Dyin' over here

[Guest IguanaKing]

Agreed Krel01...let's hope we can get Black Shark within the next couple of weeks or hopefully no longer than month or two.

 

 

I don't know about anyone else....but I'm Dyin' over here

 

Not me, dude. I'm not encouraged by the info we're getting about some of the things that have been missing from LOMAC. It seems those missing items may still be missing.

[nscode]

I'm all for not releasing BS until the chopper is 100% done. But other fixes can wait for a patch.

[Witchking]

heh.....if the bill boards were atleast opaque all the time and NOT cause a fps drop to 10 fps everytime I fly close to a city...I would be happier.

[Force_Feedback]

I don't care for transparent trees, if they will save me even 2 fps, I'm in for them. I don't want to buy a game I'll be able to play decently after 5 years, on the newest triple-core cpu.

[weasel75]

For a heli-sim - there should be "working" trees!!

(Not just for the eye-candy, but to hide (from radar and VID) and advanced tactics.)

[krel01]

For a heli-sim - there should be "working" trees!!

(Not just for the eye-candy, but to hide (from radar and VID) and advanced tactics.)

 

Yeah weasel75 that's what I mean. I think for flying jets in higher areas it is

not so important how the landscape is done. But with choppers - that will be

totally different.

 

I am really excited how the gameplay will be with BLACK SHARK. There have

to be woods and stuff. I hope they don't just focus on having every screw correct on each tank.

That's what concerns me because we already got tons of tank pics now.

[nscode]

For the 119881th time, other people are doing those nice tanks for ED. They're not spending time on that :)

[Solidburn]

What I mean IK is since it's looking pretty much done, not start asking for more stuff. Except for maybe proper IFF for the F-15, that seems to be the only thing that might be a priority. (for the online combat anyway)