And you said spring is ugly?

[Beherith]

I stuck in all the bells and whistles, and here is a sample of what is possible:

Vertex shader animated trees
Custom particle system for pixies
Map level normal mapping and SSMF
Normal mapped features
Pretty skyboxes

Animation video, wait until it goes up in HD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDnVLJstKqY













Map has been released, available at http://springfiles.com/spring/spring-maps/magic-forest.

The tree shaders only work under BA and BAR (and any other mod that uses the same version of jK's unitshader framework.)

[Satirik]

it's not ugly but's it's not battlefield 3 either ... :D

[KaiserJ]

haha well i am glad that it's not bf3; that would mean that beherith was an evil corporation, and that this map would cost $15

great work as always

how easy is the tree shader to implement; how about the normalmap features part? could i do it?

what is map level normals? something i might have to zoom in and see, or something visible that i'm just not recognizing

[PicassoCT]

they told me i should test on something fast, something not long loading.
I test on Tabula v4 every day.


If this is good, its going to be the new test-grounds.

High Soon for the link.

[PicassoCT]

Behe has reached a completely new troll status:
Just teasin, never releasin.

[SirArtturi]

Not anymore...

[Cheesecan]

Keep it up and mainstream games will be jealous.

Not to mention shaming the rest of us.

Nice work as always.

[zoggop]

Lovely. It makes me wish someone had made a fantasy-themed Spring game.

[knorke]

That looks very nice, esp in the video.
I just fear it will not run very fast on my computer :/
eg C&C Generals has animated trees, flowing water and all that working even on older computers but with this I somehow have a bad feeling..

[Beherith]

I recommend at the very least a geforce 8600GT to see the difference...
Oh yeah, and thanks for the flowers, Picasso!

[PicassoCT]

Behe marry me

[SirArtturi]

Before you release, could you reduce the amount of those magic flowers. It feels a bit overkill atm, performance could also improve?

[MidKnight]

Beautiful! Magnificent! :D

IMO, you ought to make the fireflies more fade-y. There are a few that don't seem to go out at all (at least from the video you posted), and a more subtle effect would make the map seem more magical. Again, only my opinion.

[Beherith]

ooh, fade-y good idea :D

[MidKnight]

^_^

[Beherith]

dammit zk uses the shader framework differently. gotta figure out how this is gonna work

[dcore221]

nice work behe

[marciolino]

Awesome work behe!

[danil_kalina]

Marvelous

[very_bad_soldier]

Good lookin'!