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Originally Posted by Gaereth
EQ2 and VG always reminded me of "Look what we can do with this fabulous new tech and awesome tools!!!!" more than anything. That doesn't mean its bad...but it presents a lot of jarring or very odd inconsistancies when you look at them.

I know that we get screenshots in every VG thread to 'prove' how good things look and tech wise they do look decent....but it always feels odd to me. Well, EQ2 does as well. I run around and oooh and ahhhh at individual pieces but eventually I start seeing a whole picture and start noticing more and more that just doesn't seem to mesh well together.

It 'feels' to me that many of these artists and stuff rely way too much on the tools to create these games and not enough on the overall artistic feel and vision. They make individual things look nice and pretty but it tends to feel a bit like an slightly wrong jigsaw puzzle. While each piece may look pretty decent, when you put them all together you see all the lines, some things don't fit right, and some pieces just don't seem to be from the right puzzle at all.

Nothing new.

As objective as I can try to be...

A massive premium was placed on the 'overall artistic feel and vision' of Vanguard. One way in which the large world helps, is by allowing for more gradual transitions from area to area to avoid sudden and jarring landscapes. I agree that the placement of objects and certain terrain elements looks very hard-edged. However, the 'fix' for this will inevitably be a tech solution that blends seams and lines of static mesh objects in with the terrain. It would be awesome if the engine realized there was a 'boulder' placed on 'dirt' and created a custom mesh where the rock meets the ground that makes it appear like the rock is inset into the terrain instead of just plopped on top. The same solution for waves that need to blend more naturally into the shoreline with perhaps a slight particle foam or white water. But who knows, I am not a visual artist. I do know that the artistic vision of the game is held in very high esteem and is alive and well.</div> <div> __________________
Nino McHammer
Fires of Heaven
Veeshan

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