New Sky/lighting/Fog/Water on dev branch

[oyci3c]

Well I see some FPS drops but it's not this bad. Using 660Ti and Core i7 870.

Hopefully no1 will be able to build anything under water ;-)

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/BNd78GY.jpg[/IMG]

[nooby-alive]

[QUOTE=oyci3c;43969876]Well I see some FPS drops but it's not this bad. Using 660Ti and Core i7 870.

Hopefully no1 will be able to build anything under water ;-)

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/BNd78GY.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

I think your screen shows nearly nothing, sorry but the water looks terrible from your point of view, cannot see the sky and grass is turning ... äh turned off I mean.
Are there flying trees !? :)

Keep on working Garry, looks good what you have realized so far.
Even if this is an early access lots of people have a lot of fun!

Greetz

[stym]

[QUOTE=nooby-alive;43969938]I think your screen shows nearly nothing, sorry but the water looks terrible from your point of view, cannot see the sky and grass is turning ... äh turned off I mean.
Are there flying trees !? :)

Keep on working Garry, looks good what you have realized so far.
Even if this is an early access lots of people have a lot of fun!

Greetz[/QUOTE]
Hes underwater :D You can walk down the slopes - there is no entity for water height yet so it has no collision = no swimming. What you see there is the water shader from below :)

[V10lator]

[QUOTE=oyci3c;43969876]Hopefully no1 will be able to build anything under water ;-)[/QUOTE]
But I love my new home! Only thing is I have no idea how to get back up:
[IMG]http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/3278922741598841107/F22246611F62308A890F3F70AEC68612B919A307/[/IMG]

But back to topic: Weirdly the picture above had lower FPS than this one (more or less the opposite effect than one guy here told, the picture below is my first 60 FPS experience) :
[IMG]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/3278922741598928255/2BDEAD3A6B1F011C9BD4EA002A90F3787127DC50/[/IMG]

[Downspire]

Clouds during the night seemed to be moving really quickly. Intended?

[Impos]

why i cant see dev server? its offline atm or what? im not banned. (nvm) dev server like rest off server. but i dont see any new sky/light/fog

[Shavasku]

I know you guys are still testing it and stuff, but please, do not remove pitch black nights. I mean, we got only like 2-3 minutes of pitch black nights anyway. It is fine the way it is right now. Or, as someone else said, you could add moon phases so we would have pitch black nights according to the moon's phase. That would be great, but please, do not remove it just because people cry they can't see anything during pitch black nights. It is a part of the game and it makes it realistic.

[Di0g0]

Can't find dev servers.

[In7Raf]

[QUOTE=V10lator;43970110]But I love my new home! Only thing is I have no idea how to get back up:
[IMG]http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/3278922741598841107/F22246611F62308A890F3F70AEC68612B919A307/[/IMG]

But back to topic: Weirdly the picture above had lower FPS than this one (more or less the opposite effect than one guy here told, the picture below is my first 60 FPS experience) :
[IMG]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/3278922741598928255/2BDEAD3A6B1F011C9BD4EA002A90F3787127DC50/[/IMG][/QUOTE]

spongbob is that you ?

[Downspire]

[QUOTE=Shavasku;43970464]I know you guys are still testing it and stuff, but please, do not remove pitch black nights. I mean, we got only like 2-3 minutes of pitch black nights anyway. It is fine the way it is right now. Or, as someone else said, you could add moon phases so we would have pitch black nights according to the moon's phase. That would be great, but please, do not remove it just because people cry they can't see anything during pitch black nights. It is a part of the game.[/QUOTE]

I don't agree with this. Not being able to do anything for 2-3mins at a time every night isn't fun. The only people who run outside during those times are people with their gamma turned up and even then it's still too dark to do anything.

What I wouldn't mind is an overcast night, that blocks out the moon, and makes it slightly darker. No where in real life do nights become so dark you can't see an inch in front of you, unless you live in a cave.

[freeb]

in the wilderness when it is pitch black, you literally cannot see anything.

and so it should be. get a torch or a flashlight out if you want to see. moon phases and overcast would be excellent though

[NeatHedgehog]

[QUOTE=freeb;43970781]in the wilderness when it is pitch black, you literally cannot see anything.[/QUOTE]

Having lived in the woods my entire life, I can assure you this is completely untrue. When it's the middle of the night, the sky is cloudy, the moon is new, and it's raining like crazy you can't see more than a couple feet, but you really can still partially "see" via peripheral vision.

[Di0g0]

First, sometimes the game crashes.

Also, I have some pictures comparing the fps with the new patch, and without. (Performance decreased with the new patch! In some zones, [B]more than 20 fps of difference[/B]).
[B]
Fps are on the right corner of the screenshots.[/B]

Test 1:

[B]After:[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/RuBoSCb.jpg[/IMG]

[B]Before:[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/9edgk2E.jpg[/IMG]

Test 2:

[B]After:[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ZegRjrR.jpg[/IMG]

[B]Before:[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hFZxVfi.jpg[/IMG]

Test 3:

[B]After:[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jOBa2wo.jpg[/IMG]

[B]Before:[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wp1VteX.jpg[/IMG]

Test 4:

[B]After:[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PzBCA6p.jpg[/IMG]

[B]Before:[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QqurWv1.jpg[/IMG]

Test 5:

[B]After:[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mslz4EU.jpg[/IMG]

[B]Before:[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/RkZrN1M.jpg[/IMG]

[nooby-alive]

[QUOTE=stym;43970008]Hes underwater :D You can walk down the slopes - there is no entity for water height yet so it has no collision = no swimming. What you see there is the water shader from below :)[/QUOTE]

ohhhh ... I am sorry, on the first look I thought what a bad quality ... sheeech ...
Ok but now it looks amazing, what a great pricture ;-P

But building a base below could cause some trouble in the future, i am sure ;)

[TexRob]

[QUOTE=nooby-alive;43971062]ohhhh ... I am sorry, on the first look I thought what a bad quality ... sheeech ...
Ok but now it looks amazing, what a great pricture ;-P

But building a base below could cause some trouble in the future, i am sure ;)[/QUOTE]

So there are no ponds or lakes yet? Nobody has posted a pic of the water surface yet.

[stym]

[QUOTE=nooby-alive;43971062]ohhhh ... I am sorry, on the first look I thought what a bad quality ... sheeech ...
Ok but now it looks amazing, what a great pricture ;-P

But building a base below could cause some trouble in the future, i am sure ;)[/QUOTE]

Its already on the trello list - thats why its only on the dev server and not on the "real" ones :D

[QUOTE=TexRob;43971537]So there are no ponds or lakes yet? Nobody has posted a pic of the water surface yet.[/QUOTE]

Nono just the shaders for the ocean has been updated - no change to the map as of yet. It just has planar reflections and a nice normal-map animation. But thats the basis for lakes / rivers etc. i'd guess.

[IronFather]

On normal server average fps is about 55-82.
But on the dev servers just by looking on mountains im getting 20-25 fps, so uncomfortable.

[Kowalski]

Can't find the dev server...

[Evolution13]

Finally made it onto a dev server, they new lighting is gorgeous, but I really miss the pitch black nights, I don't need torches or flashlights at all now. Hope this is just a glitch.

[AlexConnor]

Looks beautiful.

This update likely to force a server wipe (even for community servers)? Just thinking if its worth building anything before it goes up.

[garry]

FYI you should see a pretty good FPS increase now, I tweaked some stuff that was affecting performance.

[Frankieboy15]

[QUOTE=garry;43981214]FYI you should see a pretty good FPS increase now, I tweaked some stuff that was affecting performance.[/QUOTE]

Thanks Garry, the FPS is great. If anything I saw it increase from 80 to 120fps by the hangar!
But I would say that the mechanics are kinda buggy?

[zloj]

[QUOTE=garry;43968730]The new sky/lighting/fog/water in oin the dev branch. Anyone tried it? Any render problems? Any FPS problems? Is FPS better? Worse? By how much?[/QUOTE]

HI Garry.

With my setup i have 172 FPS with grass.on false., with grass.on true 60-75 Fps
The clouds looks good, maybe move to fast.

[ThingsWePlay]

Well, I just had a very quick dip and noted a huge FPS increase for me personally.

Which. Is. Awesome.

[TP_MoonStar]

[QUOTE=zloj;43981409]HI Garry.

With my setup i have 172 FPS with grass.on false., with grass.on true 60-75 Fps
The clouds looks good, maybe move to fast.[/QUOTE]

Try disabling the grass shadows. I tested this several times and it appears that the grass shadow is kinda buggy.

[Da Stick]

Should put all those hours in creating some awesome new items to craft..

Love to have a new sky but cba to wait a few months for that.

[jazsquared]

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaNXervexJs[/url]

have noticed that trees in the distance don't update their lighting unless you move the mouse.
timelapsed 3x this small example, had a better spot for recording it but got killed sorry

[JoeyBeanz]

I noticed wolves & bears will climb rocks to get to you on the dev server. Do they do that currently in the live version? Last time I was in that situation they definitely wouldn't climb up, but that was a couple of updates ago.

[Shavasku]

[QUOTE=JoeyBeanz;43982622]I noticed wolves & bears will climb rocks to get to you on the dev server. Do they do that currently in the live version? Last time I was in that situation they definitely wouldn't climb up, but that was a couple of updates ago.[/QUOTE]

They climb up now, yes. Especially wolves.

[Crableg]

Can anyone post pics of the new bow/campfire/storage box during the day please?