1024 ocean texture beta testers/Critiquers????

[Cricket]

I'd like to send some people my latest version of the side view water texture(i call it shark 2, hehehe). I'd like you to critique it and see if you can make it any better. I'd like to release it but i'm worried that i don't know enough about photoshop 6 and/or Falcon programing to make it better. One thing iv'e learned is how completely water color is dependant of the sky color. ie. Dark blue sunny sky= dark blue water, bright yellow sun=more yellow into the water which gives it the greenish color.



I could compress the texture to jpg format if you want OR email the .pcx format H,M,L and T's in a folder.

Tory

[Cricket]

Scratch that........

I did something that i should've done a long time ago. I loaded the F-14 carrier landing te. Those big waves are as big as the frigates. So although it looks nice, it just doesn't look right near the ships. Back to the drawing board as they say.

ps: i loaded a top-down tex that looks pretty good around ships in the "Ocean Tex Update" post. Check it out.

[Cricket]

Scratch the scratch,

SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND


This is 4 of my 512k shark 2 textures turned into one 1024 texture. Notice the framerate. I've tested this in a campaign mission too, not much of a framerate hit. You wanna talk about sense of speed, lets talk. Ya know when you turn time up to 4x over regular terrain, no need! The sense of speed is simply incredible. I actually looked up to see if it was 2x or 4x the 1st time i flew over this. It almost feels funny at first, but your brain begins to except it after awhile.

Sooooooooo, who would like to confirm this as usable. Who wants the textures? T-Rex, Widow?

almost forgot, my specs:
1.2 Athlon ->underclocked to 900mhz due to stability issues
512megs ddr@266mhz
Radion 8500
MSI K7Master (pos)

[Snake Man]

Yeah email it to me nospam

Maybe I can use it in some theater. Of btw would you be able to do coast tile for this ocean also?

PMC TFW
Snake Man

[T_Rex]

I'm in for testing. Same email as last time.

[SHINOBI]

I'd like to test it too!

[Cricket]

How did you guys like it?

[Widowmaker]

hmm missed this one
Cricket, never ask just send them..


Widmak

[Cricket]

hehe ok widow, im glad you like them.

I'll send them to you. Nice job on the dogfight terrain, VERY FUN STUFF! I wish more maps were like that.

Guys, let me know if you want just one pcx texture if you are bandwidth limited. Bandwitdth is no problem for me so no problems sending everything at once.

[Cricket]

hows the framerate?

[kinggeorge]

Well it looks almost incredible but isn't it too much like a painting?
Anyone tried to make 2048 textures? Thats the max most cards will accept. I'd love to try that out

[Cricket]

Can i send it to you king? Its really intresting to see how good the sense of speed is. I don't know about a painting, but i don't really like it much myself, just better than the original. However, IF you happen to be looking at the texture from the angle the actual picture the texture is based on, it look fabulous. Any other view than that however, don't look so good.

[Cricket]

I would also like to say that untill we get better high resolution top-down photographs to make textures with 1024 res tiles don't really make a huge difference IMHO.

[kinggeorge]

Well I do like the sense of speed of higher res textures!! But there are 2 problems that have to be worked on -the shimmering and and the look from higher altitudes.
I'd suggest you try different pics and messing around with a paint proggie a little bit. I am sure it will get even better (and much better than the original)

Good work so far!