lol that's right I'd forgotten about that. exitstageleft(in my best Snagglepus voice)

i just checked and to me the trees were moving and flickering when i was 400m above them causing the shadows to flicker too(need someone else to test, highest detail level for trees)

Lets hope we get a option to turn them off.

Ah yes but be warned this maybe one step closer to making this sim a success, and that's not what you want, 'member

option to turn off the tree shadows or moving trees bisher

I think either or both would be a good option to have, should help framerates drastically

We don't know if they can implement it in the options, perhaps they could disable it for a while...

Sure I appreciate the mechanics of it all, and adding hit boxes to the trees is definitely not the way forward performance wise, simply categorising and setting a material flag as collidable (AI aside) is purely one of the most simple tasks going, I speak with 13 software titles to my credit, unless there really is some other issue which is being missed ??

It looks like they've licensed a 3rd party vendor, SpeedTree, i.e. http://www.speedtree.com/ to render. It's very common and usually has hitboxes that are relatively trivial to use.

They just didn't use it very well, or rather a little unusually, re:Luthier

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpost.php?p=245995&postcount=7

Something doesn't quite feel right about the trees to me, though if its just CPU cycles then they should of optimized the sim better, its still not working across all the cores correctly.

To me it seems the speed tree is not showing the same trees on everyone's screen not matter what the detail level, its rendering them in different places, so they cant have a hit box.(this is just a hunch).

I take anything Luthier says with a pinch of salt now after he said "trust me on this" about the Spitgirl stuff.

Anyway...lets see what Friday brings.

You (must) have a much greater view distance in flight sims then in all other games. I think the main problem is, what Luthier wrote, that they have to use a trick to place so many trees in a frame. That means for me, they could not "easily" apply these hit boxes without the performance hit. No flight sim (AFAIK), except CoD, is using SpeedTree for a reason...

are there really that many trees on screen?

A few

Well...i dont know about you Bisher, but i would take 10% of them trees if they made it look like this...


By furbs9999 at 2011-07-08

and made the trees crash-able(?)lol

Let me get this right.If I crash land on the pea green CoD landscape and hit trees,my aircraft will not break up?
Is this what you are saying?
You have technical know how,I have hardly any,but I thought I had bought a "life like" sim.
Not true then?Another dissapointement!

I agree Furbs, totally agree.

gwalch if you crash land onto the landscape your aircraft will break up, but not so with the trees, so you'd make it through the trees fine, but the land beneath would ruin your day.

Thanks bisher.
Not toooooo bad then!!!!!!

Sure but there are players that are good at flying through the trees without hitting the ground beneath because to

them its a "tactic" . If you could not crash into the ground it would mean you could actually "fly under the map"

and emerge on the other side of the map to evade your pursuers. And there was a flight sim in the past where you

could do that online. I wont give the name of it, but it used to be very popular.

well since everyone is complaining hiding in the trees is bad I may just hide in a sheep herd. I don't believe they have hit boxes either.

In DCS they tried, and then abandoned, speed tree - and they still don't have collidable trees.

In RoF they use speed tree, and the trees are collidable - but there are less of them (and less activity generally).

So...

There is a choise between collide with trees and game speed! Your choise?