Friday 2011-01-21 Dev. update and Discussion

[tintifaxl]

Originally Posted by AdMan

that's why you do a combination of both, you can take a satellite image, edit those images to remove things that dont pertain to the period. You can then use it as a template to lay out your 3d objects, trees etc. You could even just use it as a template pulling general layouts and textures from it then scrap the image itself or keep parts in certain areas. This is basically what was done for the towns/city, they had maps/satellite and were arranging streets and houses on top of the image. It doesn't look like they used the same technique as much for rivers, trees, and land plots.

also I think using individual trees has major limitations and is a performance hog.

And we would never be able to afford that. But then I'm quite content with the eye candy in COD.