Louisiana Discussion Thread

[flight50]

If I had to pick on those trees, I'd say lower a few perhaps to change the height. But I do understand the concern about rotation. Not to big of a deal to me. In a pick they could look bad but flying by at 60mph, most won't even see it.

[Aziz]

Meh, nobody is gonna notice that unless your really into detail.

One would think level artists should be into detail but there we are.
Random foliage rotation is a basic tool available in most if not all modern 3D world building software, even if only a single model is being used. But SCS people refuse to use it, are unable to use it, or for some reason Prism3D doesn't have this tool.
Because if the trees (or rocks, or bushes) are placed by hand, rotating them on one axis should be a first thing to do after plopping the asset. Especially when there's few of the same asset in a close cluster.

[Maverick89]

I wonder what Big City #1, #2 and #3 will be. Shreveport, New Orleans and ??

Shreveport, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge, no doubt.

[sametbey]

At the same time, two large mountains somewhere in Austria are replicas of each other.

[Tristman]

I could also see them doing a blog featuring multiple big cities, I believe they have done such a thing before.

[Mooner_37]

Yes, they did that in with Lincoln & Omaha in one Blog and Wichita, Topeka & Kansas City (KS) in one blog.

[Runoff_975]

One would think level artists should be into detail but there we are.
Random foliage rotation is a basic tool available in most if not all modern 3D world building software, even if only a single model is being used. But SCS people refuse to use it, are unable to use it, or for some reason Prism3D doesn't have this tool.
Because if the trees (or rocks, or bushes) are placed by hand, rotating them on one axis should be a first thing to do after plopping the asset. Especially when there's few of the same asset in a close cluster.

Because it's a work in progress? Does anyone read the bottom of the text to say otherwise? Vegetation gets changed before release. It's not rocket science.

[Aziz]

I'd be rich if I had a nickel for every time I hear a "work in progress" when I raise the rotation issue (which never gets fixed btw). I dare you to find the place after release, bet it will look exactly the same, i.e. all repetitive.

[plykkegaard]

Most trees are placed generic by the engine
One of the reasons you can experience "misplaced" trees sticking through eg bridges
The error has to be delt with manually in the editor

[gaillard]

I hear you Peter, and I personally don't bother about this, but the procedural code snippet could include a small "Random-degree" parameter at little cost.