View Full Version : Time Lapse video from SilkyVenom!
Chromite
08-31-06, 01:35 AM
Wow. Just wow... Vanguard has the most beautiful skies I've ever seen in a game. Moving clouds!
Check out these videos from Silky Venom!
http://www.silkyvenom.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4875
You can see the trees and grass moving tons, too.
Wow this looks awesome.
ShadowCross
08-31-06, 01:47 AM
Moving clouds!
Didn't see the video yet (SilkyVenom blocked here), but geez - even the original EQ of 1999 had moving clouds... granted, they always moved the same direction (West->East or the other way round, was an awesome compass until you got that sense heading to 200)
Chromite
08-31-06, 01:49 AM
OK maybe I should clear it up a bit.. better moving clouds! heh. They look pretty damn good.
ShadowCross
08-31-06, 02:29 AM
What I'd love to see is a sky that can actually clear up and turn overcast by clouds that dynamically form/dissolve.
What I'd love to see is a sky that can actually clear up and turn overcast by clouds that dynamically form/dissolve.
I seem to remember Brad saying that things like that were going to happen. But it was a while back.
What I'd love to see is a sky that can actually clear up and turn overcast by clouds that dynamically form/dissolve.
And real thunderstorms! Spooky!
ragweed
08-31-06, 03:27 PM
I was hoping for random clouds, I saw that video a couple days ago, the clouds repeat a pattern, same size and number of clouds.
One nice thing tho, the clouds are volumetric, so when you get a flying mount you can fly through a cloud, just like how you would in the real world in a plane.
I really like the fog that hovers over the water at Rindol Field i think its called, has a very cool look to it :pimp
ragweed
08-31-06, 05:54 PM
I thought it was fog also, play it again, it is a bloom effect in the lighting of the sun rising directly above that part of the water. You can tell by how bright it is there, yet not as bright anywhere else, also the fog is only in the one part.
I was hoping for fog also, but that doesn't seem like it.
Thought that shadows and blooms were not yet implemented?
Lenilya
08-31-06, 08:39 PM
Wouldn't be suprised. Hell, iirc, this isn't the actual engine the game will finish with- it's supposed to be using the Unreal 3 at some point, I though.
If it is a bloom effect, it certainly looks alot like fog :p
But it will be very interesting to see it in the game eventually, just the skies look fantastic, and that smoke in the video with that Bard was another cool scene, Jerrith who posted the video also said that if you were standing in another angle you could see that the smoke was leaning to the east or something like that, but i hope the smoke will move the way the wind is moving, that would be pretty cool, don't ya think? :)
Wouldn't be suprised. Hell, iirc, this isn't the actual engine the game will finish with- it's supposed to be using the Unreal 3 at some point, I though.
Brad has stated that Vanguard will ship with a heavily modified version of the Unreal 2.5 engine, which it is currently using. It will be upgraded to Unreal 3 sometime after release.
To answer the weather question, Brad stated that there WILL be weather effects. Rain storms, sand storms, snow storms, etc and that they WILL affect game play. This would lead me to believe that the cloud densities will also change. I'd be willing to bet that the clouds were just looping because they haven't implemented all of the cloud effects yet.
I'd be willing to bet that the clouds were just looping because they haven't implemented all of the cloud effects yet.
You may be right though I wonder why he did not make any reference to that in his recent statements regarding moving sky, especially after Silky Venom posted their videos.
You may be right though I wonder why he did not make any reference to that in his recent statements regarding moving sky, especially after Silky Venom posted their videos.
That, I have no idea about. I know the video was something that was "slapped together at the last minute" to appease the people complaing about the night and day shots that had the clouds in the same spot. People complained about it even after he said, "Ok guys. I used a DEV command to switch from day to night. That's why the clouds didn't move."
That, I have no idea about. I know the video was something that was "slapped together at the last minute" to appease the people complaing about the night and day shots that had the clouds in the same spot. People complained about it even after he said, "Ok guys. I used a DEV command to switch from day to night. That's why the clouds didn't move."
I know... sometimes I think the official forums are nothing more than a whinefest (sigh). Anyhoo... sky moving is a good thang!