For those waiting for Oblivion

Linwig · 12 Mar 2006 at 00:12

Have you tried a demo of Speedtree RT in the mean time?

http://www.speedtree.com/html/pangaea_main.htm

Me likey

modo77 · 12 Mar 2006 at 09:41

That does look very nice, I'll give it a go when I'm home from work.

PinkPig · 12 Mar 2006 at 10:02

I was expecting something pretty but was quite disapointed - no nicer than most recent games in my opinion.

Errol · 12 Mar 2006 at 10:16

Looks completely rubbish. Hope Oblivion looks nothing like it.

What on earth is with the crap draw distance ? The grass does not show about 50 yards away.

Awful.

Hector · 12 Mar 2006 at 11:46

http://elderscrolls.com/images/art/ob_pc/obliv31B.jpg
http://elderscrolls.com/images/art/ob_pc/obliv32B.jpg
because of speedtree, the trees and grass are made with procedural math meaning that the devs could spend far more time on the gameplay code.. but looking at the above two images, would we want to wait a few more years while they manualy make the trees/grass or develope their own procedural code??

n30_mkii · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:13

After looking at that demo and comparing with the released screenshots and previews in real time of oblivion ive got to say i dont think we have anything to worry about.

I do remember that in one of the interviews that the terrain is very detailed when you step out of a city or cave / dungeon but then after about 50 yrds it decreases in detail. But apparently this isn't a problem and still looks great

Check out the chapter 2 video on this page

elderscrolls.com featuring the forests in real time....Worth a look if you haven't seen it

Lagmeister · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:42

T he speed tree demo wasnt supposed to look brilliant graphically, it used a cheap engine to do its demo (if I remember correctly), but the idea that they are pushing is the tree generation and the like and I think thats pretty good by itself.

Nate--IRL-- · 12 Mar 2006 at 15:06

Speedtree is being used in the next Lock On sim- Lock On: Black Shark (no pics yet though)

www.lockon.ru

Nate

ScarySquirrel · 12 Mar 2006 at 15:21

the screenshots looked great, but it wasnt that impressive even with everything on high in 1600x1200

Hector · 12 Mar 2006 at 15:52

I do remember that in one of the interviews that the terrain is very detailed when you step out of a city or cave / dungeon but then after about 50 yrds it decreases in detail. But apparently this isn't a problem and still looks great

it's like far cry in that respect, so i heard. (edit, i may have either misunderstood you or something i read.. i thought it was about 50 yards from the player not a dungon entrance ect).

but the idea that they are pushing is the tree generation and the like and I think thats pretty good by itself.

animated trees too!

Elite was a game that used procedural programming and here's the future:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-262774490184348066&q=spore
one hour long but a good movie, there is a trimmed down version but you miss much of what makes the game so special.

sachinbadiani · 12 Mar 2006 at 21:55

Since the thread title was general and not specific to SpeedTree, I thought I might add that you can go on the elder scrolls website and go to a link to listen to the music of Oblivion (and also Morrowind).

I purchased the two albums (Morrowind and Oblivion) yesterday night - they are protected by DRM - so I need to get the Direct Song company to reset my license count - nice tracks they are though