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[Mig Eater]

As some of you may know the beaches in D-day are going to be greatly expanded in size/quality & even have animated waves. I’ve made several attempts to make something I liked & now after about a year of trying I think I have something usable


(It's not an in-game pic BTW just a composite preview)

I’m not 100% happy with the waves but I’ll work on it when I animate them. Before I can do any more tho I have to get over one major hurdle. Using the normal isoubn.pal just completely ruins it so I’m gona have to nag Pd to add custom pals for terrain in the next rock patch. It should be easy as he has already added custom pals for infantry, buildings & animations. If any of you talk to Pd please ask him about this, the more ppl that suggest it the more likely he will add it & I’m sure that you lot want to see this working ingame as much as I do

[Athena]

Looks very cool, good luck with it .

[Gamemate]

That has to be the best beach I have ever seen made for any game/mod, I know it is just preview so far... Does not change that the composition of colours are just impressive

[maggot]

Had to break my silence treatment for this (still check this site like 5 times a day - even when I work from 8 to 8)

Mig, that's incredible (and to think you're not happy with that... Go figure, at that rate we'll have to wait another year for a release before you're completely satisfied).

Anywho, if I may suggest darkening the water, as of now it looks more like a Bahama beach rather than an Omaha beach... The water probably was coloured red...

Waves look fine (award winning understatement of the year) by me. And I've added custom pals for terrain to the wishlist.

Edited by maggot, 03 September 2006 - 09:56 PM.

[Mig Eater]

Well 75% of the maps that will have beaches will be in the pacific so I didn’t want it too dark.

[Mig Eater]

Actually my first attempt at this got as far as ingame testing & it didn’t really lag at all, that was on my old Win98 with 128mb of RAM!

[Jeeves]

Alright! Not only is it cool but I could experience it when its done

[wilmet]

it looks incredible it's amazing what you have managed to do with the old RA2 engine.

[Mig Eater]

Well I can’t add it to RA2 until I can use custom pals once I have that tho its easy to do.

[rant]I would like to point out that I feel RA2 is very underrated & is full of possibilities but hardly any one has really tried to tap into that potential. I see all too often that modders set the benchmark at the standard game but you could do so much more with the engine if you wanted too![/rant]

[wilmet]

show us the light , oh eating one

it's interesting to see that all you needed to do was to try, hope you'll be able to convince Pd.

[LEGO]

I can hardly believe it's a ingame image of YURI, if it were not from you, the eats one

Next time try to split the sea water

[Blade]

You have forgotten one possible problem that I've never put to the test for this... how exactly do you plan on syncing the wave animations between seperate tiles?

[Mig Eater]

I plan to have set start & finish points as well as have a set distance the wave will travel each frame. I’ll be using pre-made grids that will mark all these points out, of course it will probably need a bit of fixing here & there but it shouldn't be much of a problem. I’ve used the same method several times before to line up lat tiles, just this time it will be more complex.

You might be interested to know that I’m thinking about making horizontal & vertical tiles for this new beach to go along with the normal diagonal style tiles, it should open a lot more possibilities & also have a more natural feel.

Lastly I think I figured out a way to use custom pals even if Pd doesn’t add it RP 1.09, still need to test it tho.

[raminator]

holy fuckin great stuff
you are teh r0x0r

but before i say to much i want to see an animated ingame pic

[killakanz]

try adding a tad of green to the water

[OmegaBolt]

Looks cool. *gets idea*

[Ash]

I can almost hear that water sloshing against the beach...


Since you say that's not an ingame, what does it look like ingame?

[Mig Eater]

I'll show you when it is ingame it's probably gona take a month to get this fully working ingame & I want to finish some other stuff I'm doing first.

[Allied General]

Impressive

[Verrückt]

wow those beaches are amazing.