#3352403 - 07/27/11 08:57 AM
Re: UK players of CoD, how does the scenery "feel?"
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Robtek, maybe but all the haze in the world isn't going to change the pastel colors we have now. This is England, south coast... By furbs9999 at 2011-07-27 To my eyes the "MOD" brings the landscape closer to this, and that's what i see everyday.
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#3352405 - 07/27/11 09:10 AM
Re: UK players of CoD, how does the scenery "feel?"
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Dano, come on...i guess these are fields he hasn't re-touched yet buddy Whoooooosh!
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#3352465 - 07/27/11 11:39 AM
Re: UK players of CoD, how does the scenery "feel?"
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Looks good to me as a native. We're still not getting a realistic depth from haze but at least the colours/trees/fields look a lot more like Eng-a-land than the stock; I espeically like the bump mapping as you do tend to notice a lot of texture when flying. heres a few pics of a MOD a guy called EKar is working on over at 1c, a WIP but a big improvement to me... By furbs9999 at 2011-07-27 By furbs9999 at 2011-07-27 By furbs9999 at 2011-07-27
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#3352531 - 07/27/11 12:56 PM
Re: UK players of CoD, how does the scenery "feel?"
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Actually, as far as I'm concerned the 'flourescent' ish green isn't too far off what you do see on a bright summers day. Although the wood/tree/field/hedge placement is better in WOP, the colour palette is way off. Check out some of the footage in this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Ykuhh4TwQ - its not all shot at the same time of year, but when the sun is shining in the middle of summer (bloody rare, seems even rarer when you want nice clear skies rather than dodging dogshit weather), the green really is bright!
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#3352576 - 07/27/11 02:09 PM
Re: UK players of CoD, how does the scenery "feel?"
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Here's some pictures of the UK (Wiltshire) in late summer taken from my glider. The key things CloD gets wrong are i) bright and strong greens are present, not just pastel shades, ii) trees are generally darker than the fields, iii) trees often form clumps of woodland and iv) hedgerows line a lot of field boundaries. To me CloD looks washed out and populated with very strange-looking light-coloured trees. The fields look like they are "painted". Wiltshire Clod World
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#3352632 - 07/27/11 03:20 PM
Re: UK players of CoD, how does the scenery "feel?"
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I flew over the Isle of Wight yesterday and wondered where they got all the rivers from, I'm not using max settings so I daresay the full effect might look better. From IL2, look at IL2 and it is rivers everywhere just like in Clod.
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#3352721 - 07/27/11 04:43 PM
Re: UK players of CoD, how does the scenery "feel?"
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I agree with all that's been said, RD's screenshots show up the problems with the colours and lighting excellently.
It's not just the colours but the tree placement that I have a big problem with. Look at RD's screeshots, the trees are in lines along the roads or field boundries, in CloD the trees are scattered randomly accross the map. It just looks wrong. WOP's colours may not be popular but its placing of trees and hadges was perfect for the UK. That's what made the terrain so appealing.
Its one of the reasons I've shelved the sim, I just can't get on with the terrain. ROF, WOP and the DCS series have a very different approach to terrain but I can enjoy looking at all of them, maybe DCS terrain looks the most real but ROF's and WOP's are also very good but in different ways. The bottom line is I just can't enjoy CloD's terrain, its a major turnoff.
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#3352799 - 07/27/11 06:41 PM
Re: UK players of CoD, how does the scenery "feel?"
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Here's some pictures of the UK (Wiltshire) in late summer taken from my glider. The key things CloD gets wrong are i) bright and strong greens are present, not just pastel shades, ii) trees are generally darker than the fields, iii) trees often form clumps of woodland and iv) hedgerows line a lot of field boundaries. To me CloD looks washed out and populated with very strange-looking light-coloured trees. The fields look like they are "painted". Wiltshire Clod World I saw those pictures several times already on this forum and they make me wonder what argument are they going to prove. Those pictures are perfectly realistic with their nice mild pastel colors on a calibrated monitor but I bet those colors, especially green ones look way more saturated and acid greens than those in CloD screenshots for many who have never calibrated their screen. Only things missed in Clod are a blue haze and a little bit darker trees. Your second photo even shows the trees are almost the same darkness as CloDs ones. So if we talk about “lime greens”. “garish” etc colors those photos rather prove that CloDs greens are spot on or pretty close saturation wise. I agree that a bit more blue haze would make CloD better but it's not something crucial. Other time It could look the Clod way for a bit different atmospheric and seasonal conditions.
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#3352878 - 07/27/11 08:08 PM
Re: UK players of CoD, how does the scenery "feel?"
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Soarinbird's arguments (and those of others) reduce to:
1. It's not Clod that looks strange, it's the monitors used by simmers that make it look strange.
2. Even if you live in England and think CloD looks strange and not like England, you're wrong.
I give up.
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