Flora system revamp.

[Celline-Layonaire]

<p>From what I can remember, 'complete revamp of the flora system' was on no.1 or no.2 in Imago-Quem's list of things to do(and he wrote that the dev team also think flora system revamp should be one of the highest priorities, in the original Shader 3.0 thread). What happened to this? Any progress made? Whenever I see many greatly decorated homes, I think ugly flora is the fly in the ointment.</p><p>Frankly speaking, current flora in EQ2 looks awful(not unbearable, but). Almost all trees remind me of some kind of drawing on plastic skeleton, and grass&flowers on the ground.....bah.. remind me of painting on transparent cellophane film. All in all, flora system in eq2 simply doesn't look competitive.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/136dd33cba83140c7ce38db096d05aed.gif" border="0" />   </p>

[Armawk]

<p>Trees, bushes and a lot of actual flora are not part of the flora system.. they are just models.</p><p>There would probably be a big benefit in look and performance by putting in something like speedtree, but the effort involved would be very large to go over the whole game.</p><p>The actual flora system (which consists only of the stuff that goes away if you turn flora off, the random grass and stuff in a circle round your toon) doesnt look great (but then most games flora systems look awful close up) but its real problem is its horrible performance.</p>

[Celline-Layonaire]

<p><cite>Armawk@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Trees, bushes and a lot of actual flora are not part of the flora system.. they are just models.</p><p>There would probably be a big benefit in look and performance by putting in something like speedtree, but the effort involved would be very large to go over the whole game.</p><p>The actual flora system (which consists only of the stuff that goes away if you turn flora off, the random grass and stuff in a circle round your toon) doesnt look great (but then most games flora systems look awful close up) but its real problem is its horrible performance.</p></blockquote><p>Ah, thanks. I got a misunderstanding on that one.</p><p>But......IMO EQ2's grass still look worse when it's compared to other games(in the same distance, of course). </p>

[Titigabe]

<p>I also wonder where was the point of giving us a list of priorities, such as sky boxes revamp, trees and flora revamp, new dances and animation ... And now we do not ear anything about that anymore.</p><p>Any news would be much appreciated! Even more regarding the tree/flora system wich is awfull as it is!</p><p>Anyway, how many devs are still working for the art dept? I just see Ttobey and Covic answering some bug questions, but nothing else.</p><p>I can't wait for the in game poll system in order to give them my feedback, hoping to be read, at last!</p>