Editing Announcements - 2010/04 - Shedding Skin (section)

=== Landscape Textures ===
{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504924#post504924
 |      Text = Oh by the way...

Guess what?

[http://ac.turbine.com/images/screenshots/Events/desert_large.jpg Click me]

[http://ac.turbine.com/images/screenshots/Events/town_large.jpg Click me]

[http://ac.turbine.com/images/screenshots/Events/ice_large.jpg Click me]
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504934#post504934
 |      Text = BTW Gigantic credit on this goes to NoWorries. He is the man behind the magic on this one.
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504939#post504939
 |  Question = Oh, is water going to get a facelift too?
 |      Text = That is the plan, though due to the engine limitations I would not expect it to suddenly look like the water from some of our other titles. I do expect it will look better though.
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504942#post504942
 |      Text = Also keep in mind these are not the completed versions. There is still some more finishing touches to be done, but we wanted to keep you all informed about what we have going on here. These guys never seem to rest these days.
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504953#post504953
 |  Question = If I'm not wrong, there's a difference between 'blue snow' on the Halaetan islands (Viamont land) that's sort of supposed to be ice, and the snow-snow everywhere else. Don't think you're going to see mountains capped with blue ice.
 |      Text = Yes there is a difference. As a reference though, I have seen the new snow as well and it too looks great.
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504958#post504958
 |  Question = ISO pics of upgraded water
 |      Text = It is not done yet. I suspect that we will be sharing more pics as we get closer to making these changes to the worlds.
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504961#post504961
 |  Question = I'm imagining this texture right now combined with added-back-in weather effects for the Big October Patch.... It's going to be nice.
 |      Text = Not to derail the thread, but it will likely be a big November patch to coincide with the anniversary.

Sev~
 | Developer = Severlin
 |     Title = Producer
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504962#post504962
 |  Question = I always thought that white stuff was snow. I never imagined it being ice.
 |      Text = There is snow, ice and blue ice. It was tough to tell the difference before.
 | Developer = NoWorries
 |     Title = AC Quality Assurance
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504962#post504962
 |  Question = ISO pics of upgraded water
 |      Text = To make sure we're clear, our engine didn't get any changes to it. Which means we can't render water the way most modern games can. It will still be a flat, non-moving texture the same way it is now.

But yes I'm sure Frelorn will bug me daily for more screenshots and we will get some out when we can.
 | Developer = NoWorries
 |     Title = AC Quality Assurance
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504979#post504979
 |      Text = These will not be in with the May Update.
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504987#post504987
 |  Question = For us running XP an older (but still quite good) card and direcx 9c: What kind of rig is required to enjoy the new additions?
 |      Text = Once the implementation part of it is complete we will be running it on different machines to see what effect it has.


I will say that I am running it with the texture detail settings/filtering at max and landscape draw distance at very high while running in windowed mode. And this is while running another client that has the old landscape setup, and about 10 other programs at the same time. So I don't think it will be much of an issue for most people.

Also the texture detail option can scale it down if you are experiencing issues, and from my testing even lowering that down to medium or low still has the landscape looking better then before.
 | Developer = NoWorries
 |     Title = AC Quality Assurance
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504990#post504990
 |  Question = For us running XP an older (but still quite good) card and direcx 9c: What kind of rig is required to enjoy the new additions?
 |      Text = From what we can tell you may notice a very small bit of a memory usage increase, but your CPU usage may actually go down. Overall unless you can barely run AC now, there should be no real difference for you after this is live, if all goes well.
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=504997#post504997
 |      Text = And just to be clear, we are hopeful that the texture upgrades shown in these shots will be in the game before November. We don't want to give an actual date yet, but we are shooting for sooner rather than later. The other stuff we have spoken about would be more likely for November.
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 3rd, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=505067#post505067
 |  Question = I read awhile back with the issue with windows 7 and ati cards somewhere. With this update might we be able to turn on the landscape detail textures?
 |      Text = I haven't gotten to landscape detail textures yet so I couldn't tell you yes or no on that. It is something I am going to try and fix while the rest of the landscape is being improved.

However those after screenshots are taken with landscape detail textures unchecked, since using the old details textures actually makes the landscape look worse currently.
 | Developer = NoWorries
 |     Title = AC Quality Assurance
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 4th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=505161#post505161
 |  Question = Looks nice but how will this effect the lag in the game its already horrible at certain towns like Ayan and Teth.
 |      Text = It's 100% client side so it won't affect lag at all.

However if you do happen to have an older machine and it is causing it to run slower you can simply change the texture detail setting down to a setting that runs good for you.
 | Developer = NoWorries
 |     Title = AC Quality Assurance
}}
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