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Originally Posted by Ailantd
In my opinion, while the house models and detail are outstanding for a flight sim, they are only barely good for ground simulators today´s standards.
From the flight sim and aesthetically point of view, there are three items where improvement need to be done to vastly improve the immersion, without which is no important how well done are the buildings or landscape items models:
- Ground surface texture at medium distance.
The nice detail texture and grass is good only for the few closer meters, which you almost don´t see never while flying. The medium distance texture looks always blurred and very low resolution, and I think it´s the bigger landscape flaw in COD right now and it makes spot of ground units very difficult as it fool your sense of scale. So I would add another detail level texture for medium distances and also improve the ground detail texture in cities.
- Landscape life.
For me this is the total immersion killer from a landscape point of view. You have very nicely landscape, but it is a dead landscape. Add some vehicles moving in the road or parked at the cities. Some birds, some animals, some smoke fires... and the magic is done. You have a breathtaking living landscape ( for people with systems that could move that at least ).
- Terrain blending and limits.
While the terrain tiles are very well done and are hardly noticeable but from very high altitudes there are two very clear ways to improve them. Airfields ground texture and blending with surrounding textures could be very improved so it fits in a more believable way.
Roads should impact the textures behind them, may be cutting the terrain tiles patches so roads become real terrain limits like in reality. Also primary roads look smaller than in-texture secondary ones, which looks estrange.
These are my constructive two cents for the landscape.
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This is the reason I'm mad about the interactive tanks and flaks. I've to add that a ground vehicle simulator has different priorities... the objects on the landscape need to be far more detailed both in graphic engine and above all in the physical one.
With the introduction of drivable tanks you are exchanging the possibility to have complete and detailed flight sim for an application that can do many average things.
IMO the russian village is really well modelled! It's only that I'll see it in the 0.0001% of my time inflight.
