Terrain sneak peek

2011-12-21 12:53:26
DEV BoyC
29 comments
Tags: engine, sneak-peek, terrain, upgrade

Here's a bit of a pre-xmas sneak peek on the progress of the new terrain engine. We're still heavily working on it, but the difference is already very notable. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below!

Comments for this post

1 Arga

2011-12-21 13:19:58

Very nice, much better immersion!

2 Celebro

2011-12-21 13:22:48

Nice much more realistic, hope I can still run game smoothly, great work Devs.

3 Kynes

2011-12-21 13:23:02

Nice job!

4 Winter Solstice

2011-12-21 14:03:20

Breathtaking! Can't wait to go on a sightseeing tour when it's active :)

5 Gremrod

2011-12-21 14:06:26

Very nice so far. Great job.

6 Annihilator

2011-12-21 14:51:53

yeah, really nice view! now please a night shot!

7 Alexadar

2011-12-21 15:58:22

I want to build a village on that green island)))

8 Alexadar

2011-12-21 16:03:02

What about new plans for GFX and animations, Boyc?

9 Graebon

2011-12-21 16:21:10

Looks amazing, will this new engine put a bigger strain on the user systems?

10 DEV BoyC

2011-12-21 16:45:13

The new engine reduces strain on the currently overloaded cpu side and increases load on the currently underused gpu side - this means that on most systems the performance shouldn't change, or you might even notice some improvements. Systems with lower end mobile systems will probably feel the increased fillrate requirements, but these shouldn't be drastic changes either.

As for new GFX and animations, that's actually graphical content which is constantly being worked on but has little to do with the rendering engine that draws it. Tomorrow's patch for example will see 6 robots get upgraded walking animations with more to come soon.

11 DEV Zoom

2011-12-21 16:52:38

The patch is actually on Friday :)

12 DEV BoyC

2011-12-21 16:58:09

Right, sorry for the misinformation :)

13 Syrissa

2011-12-21 17:23:19

looks realy nice... looking forward to it.

14 DEV BoyC

2011-12-21 17:37:07

Just to be clear: this doesn't go out yet on friday, it's still a work in progress :)

15 Scyylla

2011-12-21 19:49:24

FANTASTIC!!!!!

Please keep it up!

16 Cobalt

2011-12-21 20:06:34

Looking WIP, we can see you guys are working hard to improve your game, the result is really cool ;) We are many to follow you and your baby. Perseverance, hope, dedication and for sure talent always pay imo.

17 The Shade

2011-12-22 02:06:45

looks much better way to go guys

18 Burial

2011-12-22 11:09:54

This looks awesome. How is the performance side?

19 01100011010011001001001

2011-12-22 20:20:21

SO this goes out Friday...awesome!

20 Armpit

2011-12-23 11:55:30

Fantastic. The Nuimqol Union islands in particular look rather dull and dreary. This should make a big difference - can't wait. Good work :)

21 LLIAXTEP

2011-12-23 12:53:26

New mountains is awesome.

22 Eng Daniel

2011-12-23 18:48:59

You can't make one island ready to test it or a special client?

23 Obi Wan Kenobi

2011-12-23 20:19:03

man that looks nice! good job devs

24 Annihilator

2011-12-29 09:37:27

"Eng Daniel
2011-12-24 00:48:59
You can't make one island ready to test it or a special client?"

its not the terrain or island that got changed, its the GFX engine that renders the terrain that is beeing worked on.