I made a new Pine tree today! We already discussed our modular tree system, but we didn't have any conifers yet. Here are some pictures of the new tree:
The tree trunk uses the tiling technique I learned from those failed experiments I talked about last week, as well as a new trick: the bark texture is tiled twice horizontally around the trunk to give it a higher apparent resolution. Because you can only ever see half of the tree at once, you can never spot the tiling.
We are definitely going to need some kind of level-of-detail management in order to draw dense forests. When the trees are as far away as they are in the picture below, we could substitute a 2D imposter image for each tree without any visible change. This should work especially well with our technique for smoothing the edges of alpha-mapped plants, as we discussed earlier.
What do you think of my new tree? Are there any other interesting trees you would like to see in Overgrowth?(permalink)
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Very nice :) And I like the art style in general, at least at those screenshots. Kinda warhammerish.
trees look amazing, but the last screen shot the ground texture looked a little stretched
The tree up close looks awesome.
Maybe some branches without foliage/ broken in some? They look a bit perfect (:
Are the trees going to be breakable?
Maybe :) We have the technology
awesome...
Nice pines, use some Araucárias(Monkey-puzzle Tree ) also, they're huge.
Some river and puddles should be nice too.
those trees are awesome, i first saw them in Burntisland, Scotland.
its goooooood
The first image is stunning. Never seen pine trees like this in games.
Not a hug thing, but sure adds to the atmosphere.
Any date on when we will see the first in-game characters?
Oops...I was talking about the second image, of course.
We already have some characters, but we want to finish the animation system before putting them in.
I like the rocks in the first image, they look as if they're painted on but I know they're 3D.
Also, while the trees are good. I'm curious when we'll start to see water updates, like rivers and lakes. Or have i just missed those updates?
Still, great work as usual.
i think some birch trees would be pretty cool...
I can smell the pine scent from here.
its looking eeeepppppppic
Say, looks awesome. Perhaps add some dynamically generated undergrowth for forests?
Whilst it does look nice, surely you can make more branches without massive hardware slowdowns because the tree just feels a bit empty.
I think also the wood is a light beachy, probably should be a little darker.
But it is nice,
always impressvie
I really like those Baobabs, which apparently can only be found in Africa:
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Don't know if that fits your style, but these trees are so large you can effectively build houses on them - or in them, even.
Bansai.