The water is horrendous

Cubical · #1 08-25-2011, 08:45 PM

So I logged on Era today while waiting for the next heat in ECSC and I saw some water at the unstick and thought it looked pretty nice (picture 1) so I decided to visit the beach and my eyes threw up on themselves (picture 2). The shallow water-> water is so square. This should be fixed, do it.

Crono · #2 08-25-2011, 09:01 PM

jesus christ.

Emera · #3 08-25-2011, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Crono

jesus christ.

xD

Cubical · #4 08-25-2011, 09:08 PM

Also there is a tile error on the right of the puddle at unstick.

DustyPorViva · #5 08-25-2011, 09:26 PM

Using dithering as a water transition... smooth.

Supaman771 · #6 08-25-2011, 09:34 PM

Pretty sure it's always been like that, just not as noticeable because before all 3 shades of water were pretty much the same... now it has the really bright seafoam+sand shallow into a totally different color. And as dusty said the transitions could be worked on.

But it's pretty much just how the tiles are laid, I worked with them a bit on Dev and it looks better if u don't make a straight line across 20 tiles...

smirt362 · #7 08-25-2011, 09:43 PM

Disgusting

JesusFreak250 · #8 08-25-2011, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Cubical

Also there is a tile error on the right of the puddle at unstick.

Oh No.

WillaWonka · #9 08-25-2011, 10:41 PM

Looks.....

BEAUTIFUL

*Cries*

Crow · #10 08-25-2011, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Supaman771

Pretty sure it's always been like that

Nope.

DustyPorViva · #11 08-25-2011, 11:36 PM

In their defense it will be hard to pull off decent looking transitions. They're using a TYPE1 tileset and it only has... what, 20 or so tiles for water? That doesn't leave a lot of room for the water tiles themselves AND a smooth transition. The dithering is unacceptable, but they're not going to be able to pull off a smooth transition that the clear water is implying it should have.

Cubical · #12 08-26-2011, 12:01 AM

I redid like half of the beach when I was a LAT on Era and fixed a lot of the tile errors which are apparent in those levels. Throw me a forum PM if you guys want it and I'll go look through my portable hard drives and see if I still have it not going to go through like 9tb worth of files otherwise.

alskdjfhg · #13 08-26-2011, 12:01 AM

Eeewwwww!

jk, I don't care!

Supaman771 · #14 08-26-2011, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Crow

Nope.

Uh yeah? The tile placement.. beach > swamp > water transitions..
They haven't changed, however the tiles themselves have.

papajchris · #15 08-26-2011, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Cubical

I redid like half of the beach when I was a LAT on Era and fixed a lot of the tile errors which are apparent in those levels. Throw me a forum PM if you guys want it and I'll go look through my portable hard drives and see if I still have it not going to go through like 9tb worth of files otherwise.

Well we sort of have a new gmap (well same gmap but super edited), so not sure if your beaches are still useful (not sure how longs its been since you got a backup), but i always welcome a chance to fix errors