Roma Surrectum II: New Battlemap Environment (2)

[tone]

Open temperate forest - winter:

[dmesa]

wow, thats what i call a 'real forest'...
i normally don't like playing on forests because i'm almost blind and can't see a thing...but this will be perfect...i love forests like this one

[chaplain118]

Somewhere in the deep offices of CA, someone is waiting for this mod to be finished.

Two months later, CA announces Rome II: Total War, featuring these graphics and buggier diplomacy

[coinich]

Damn, I can't wait to ambush in the Germanic and Dacian forests...

[ray243]

Is there anyway to ensure the troops don't become sprites when the Camera isn't near?

[Alavaria]

Set the detail to Highest. Then sprites won't ever be used. But it'll strain your computer, of course.

[tone]

The dense forest will probably be a bit denser than this in terms of tree canopies. It'll be based the ancient Hercynian forest that occupied much of modern Germany and Poland, which Pliny describes as being full of huge oaks, unlike the vanilla Germanic forests which are mainly conifers ( a more modern change).

If you set detail to highest you'll see a significant slow down with RS2 as we have no level of detail models....I'll produce an alternative version of the DMB that sets the sprite distance to further away (probably more like 100m) for those with higher spec systems.

[pcp]

I have no more adjectives to describe it!

[mastaace]

Are you talking about the alpine forest there?


With these new forests it's difficult to give a good impression of things just with screenshots - the whole experience is very immersive. You'll generally be bringing the camera below the canopy so it feels like you're in the forest, but you'll have a reasonably good view of what's going on...particularly with this open forest.

i was referring to the photo algorath posted.
he already answered with this:

yeah me too...maybe there could be spots of forest that are inaccessible. Just for the looks

[tone]

I'll see what I can do but ultimately it's a bit of a balancing act with frame rates and so on.....too many trees will bring too much lag.

[Sandrus Castus]

It looks fantastic, but aren't the trees a bit too big? Or is that just me?

[tone]

I'd say they're the right sort of height

[dmesa]

I agree, they have the right size, but the thing i like the most is that this kind of forest has more open space on it. I feel more inmersed, its realistic and beautiful =)

[tone]

I'm hoping the dense forest will come out something like this:

[tone]

Some nice screenshots from Brusilov:

[Beetlecat]

mon dieu!

[chenkai11]

I'm hoping the dense forest will come out something like this:

I think it need some fog effect to get that.

[Killerbee]

Message to tone :

Get some sleep ! You may die if you don't get some .

An important lesson , that is

[algorath]

very nice duude

[Fruddy]

Tone? Are you even human? ... this is awesome..

btw. What about some rivers?