@Kartoffel: great quality, and good luck for the performance tweaks! first of all, you could make a reaper game, to cut off the grass to improve performance

@Kartoffel: really nice!

just made a new seeding panel to place entities in large batches, taking into account terrain height, -slope, and game area, using 2 different methods: random placement or full coverage.

Released the first version of my Vehicle Editor:

http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=432070



@sivan: nice. Does they get a random rotation (pan) and does they move along with terrain deformation?

@oliver, yes some random pan and tilt. all entity vertical positions can be updated by a button, if terrain deforms afterwards.

just made some performance tests with 480 units pathfinding in 20 groups, utilizing pro features: terrain cache (lod currently results in ugly terrain self shadows), bone animation, and sprite instancing. terrain resolution is also lowered now. no magic speed, just acceptable results, now I can avoid using static lightmaps. and with some further character and group code optimization it will be a bit better.

high settings for future pc-s (I get around 17-23 fps depending on camera view):

lower settings for current pc-s (I get 25-35 fps depending on camera view):

working on a shotgun model



...but it's still missing normal- and specular-maps

I hope it can be called as bloom-blur:

I really wish I get as good as you guy. Working hard with my RST/FPS game.
Testing my A-10 flight.

@WrekWIRED Looks nice. Keep posting and working. And keep learning, I'd say that the really great looking stuff in this thread comes from people would spend the time to search and learn outside of the 3dgs area. But even great storms start with small winds so just keep moving towards your goals.

@sivan Every month something new and better. How long has the dev cycle been now? It's always looking more awesome.

@sivan

bloom: scene -> highpass -> blur -> combine

but it's looking really nice