Trees in 3D Games. ARRGH!

[geno]

Go play Final Fantasy X, some of the most relistic trees I've ever seen (there's some smaller ones that you can count the leaves on when the camera passes by, it looks amazing)

 

[mdennison]

I can't tell much difference between serious sam 1 and 2 graphics, but the trees in part 2 look pretty darn good.

 

[Maverick]

polygon counts on trees are kept low so that you get a decent framerate. Its getting better though...in like two or three more generations of games you'll see multipolygon trees. Right now it just doesn't add enough to the gaming experience to justify a big framerate loss.

 

[neomits]

<< Ghost Recon does trees real well. The best I've seen >>



Agreed. Look real nice with a GF3 Ti200

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

<< 3dfx was actually going to do that. >>


Supposedly, but from all of the leaked specs one can assume the voxel engine was canned from the Rampage design.

 

[element]

Some nice trees and a nice outdoor engine....hey grass too! And the grass moves with the wind!

edit: go to their website and check out the video in th edownloads section.

 

[Amused]

3DMark2001 has a "Nature" 3D simulation that looks incredible. The trees and grass are amazingly complex.