Living Lands v2.0

[aeonios]

Welp, after fighting with technology every step of the way I finally managed to get 2.0 up to a shippable level. Some of you have already seen the WIPs so you probably already know what to expect, but the full changelog and new screenshots can be found on the download page:

http://springfiles.com/spring/spring-ma ... ng-lands-0

I'm pretty happy with how everything turned out so far. Please let me know if there are any issues, details I might have missed or anything else that might improve it further. Enjoy!

[qray]

Hey, nice improvement.

With adv. map shading on it still seems a bit on bright side (but much better than first version). If I remember right you can't use adv. map shading on your system. So, for comparison some screenshots:

Without adv. map shading


With adv. map shading


And some BA units are very bright when seen from straight above (see the 10 flash tanks):


On a first look, I would guess that this comes from the quite high DiffuseColor values for units und ground (but not 100% sure and didn't test it; could do so tomorrow, if you're interested).

[aeonios]

hmm.. that's kind of annoying. If I turn down the brightness it looks way too dark without adv. I do want to figure out what's causing that though, that's definitely too bright. I think you might be right about it being diffuse color, which unfortunately would mean I'd have to put up with looking at a dark map.

edit: ok I reduced the ground diffuse, unit diffuse and unit specular colors to hopefully balance it out a bit under adv. Updating with a minor version bump.

[qray]

Played a bit with the settings. When I use

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groundDiffuseColor  = { 0.8, 0.8, 0.8 },
groundSpecularColor = { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 },

it looks like this (adv. map shading on):

Without adv. map shading, it looks pretty much the same - but without shiny metal spots.

And with

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unitDiffuseColor    = { 0.7, 0.7, 0.7 },
unitSpecularColor   = {0.2, 0.2, 0.2 },

The flash tanks are not blindingly shiny:



EDIT: Ups, didn't get during writing and making screenshots that you had already uploaded an update

[aeonios]

ah, my updated settings are actually really close to that, too. I have unit-specular set a little bit higher, so those tanks would be a bit brighter, but it should still be well within reasonable.

[aeonios]

v2.02 is now up. Notes and new screenshots can be found on the springfiles page:
http://springfiles.com/spring/spring-ma ... ng-lands-0