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[The Witch King of Angmar]

Looks awesome! Now, is that castle in front of the camp the one you were attacking? I wasn't exactly sure.

Thanks

[Andy Joslin]

Yep, that's the one you're attacking.

[LiTos456]

Wow, looks very nice!
By the way, will you be able to see vegetation be wet and water dripping down from it or such when it's raining?

[Grizzlez]

Heavy rain doesn't make the game lag does it? In BFME if you tried to have some decent weather effects it made the game lag loads. Also I like the screenshot and how weather actually has specific effects on units and not ones like all the men for instance are 50% weaker during rain, where as orcs are 50% weaker in daylight.

[LeopardX]

Originally Posted by Konstantin Fomenko

I was just testing new Crossbowman unit in singleplayer Siege mode - laying siege to the Denwall stronghold. During the cinematic portion where I need to select position for my army camp and my forces - an epic thunderstorm kicked in.

Unfortunately I can`t post a 15 second video showing thunder, but here`s a screenshot of the rain.

Wow! That looks amazing. Love the weather effects, but I hope they won't take a heavy toll on computer resources.

[Bryan Oakley]

High quality wide screen shot (2+ MB)

Of an elven eye candy scene. I know this is suppose to be gameplay only but you've all been wanting a high quality shot for awhile so pray the higher ups don't notice. Shshshsh. It'll be our little secret....

[Kell Aset]

Not bad for tree lovers heh .

[Joseph Visscher]

Originally Posted by Grizzlez

Heavy rain doesn't make the game lag does it? In BFME if you tried to have some decent weather effects it made the game lag loads. Also I like the screenshot and how weather actually has specific effects on units and not ones like all the men for instance are 50% weaker during rain, where as orcs are 50% weaker in daylight.

We are still working on it, when the game is done, it shouldn't be noticeable, if we have to, I think we'll lower the quality of some graphics during weather to compensate the weather effect. We are not EA, we will try our best to make the best, and bfme2 was in production for,,, 6 months?

Originally Posted by Phylast

Who can I give a pat on the back for creating the weather features? Even in .jpeg form it is beautiful, can't wait to see it in motion.

Originally Posted by Andy Joslin

Andrej Kulgan coded the automatic weather system, and Joseph Visscher made the lighting settings for each time of day, type of weather, etc (harder than it sounds; basically making the game look realistic). Andrej Kulgan also made the FX for rain and snow.

I got the ball rolling, made the first muti cycle with lightning effects, but the coding was a complete mess, as I was simply trying to create a fun new feature,,, thats where we got Andrej to come in and make it shine in the sun with bran new coding.

[LiTos456]

Originally Posted by Bryan Oakley

High quality wide screen shot (2+ MB)

Of an elven eye candy scene. I know this is suppose to be gameplay only but you've all been wanting a high quality shot for awhile so pray the higher ups don't notice. Shshshsh. It'll be our little secret....

Looks very nice. Although I think you seriously need to work on those reflections.

[Konstantin Fomenko]

Joseph, Eric and Bryan just finished another one of CPU controlled MMORTS world towns - this one Elven, and I just had to take a screenshot - now this is epic!