Comments on: 9.4 Cinematic Shots

By: boiba

boiba — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:02:45 +0000

Thats the US T28 “Mock-Up” not a IS or IS-7 prot
take a look at here
http://world-of-tanks-leaks.wikia.com/wiki/T28_Concept

By: earthman34

earthman34 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:00:37 +0000

All well and good, but some of us can’t crank all those details up, since it’s only a single core game and the frame rate drops too low to be playable. I actually use the old renderer, because it gives the best frame rates on my system.

By: Rexxie

Rexxie — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:20:08 +0000

Thanks a ton for the side-by-side. That’s a rather large improvement, especially for thin features like the little handlebars in that image or the basket turrets on the Cent and Leo. You can actually tell what is casting the shadow now.

By: Awesometankdriver

Awesometankdriver — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 22:26:02 +0000

Yea, supertesting. Those tanks are not in the 9.4 CT

By: SectR

SectR — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:58:55 +0000

Here you go:

9.3 (Which is by no means grainy compared to how WoT’s shadows were till 8. something when you’d have most of the shadows covering your tank as actual grains):

http://oi61.tinypic.com/v2qz4y.jpg

9.4:

http://oi61.tinypic.com/aw3iid.jpg

Having made that comparison and watching them side by side, the texture part wasn’t true, they did however slightly alter the lighting and due to the shadows they do seem to have more detail in action and not zoomed in at a few tens of cm.

By: SectR

SectR — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:24:07 +0000

Update on that debate: I just installed 9.4 to compared the shadows, prepare for your FPS to go down in 9.4, they updated them yet again and yes they look a little better better than the effect of having to force 8xMSAA on 9.3, not only that, textures too, even normal textures have a lot more detail than the “HD” optional pack from 9.3.

Pretty weird to not bring these enhancements into discussion on their own in any of the recent blog posts since test was released, especially since there’s nothing more juicy for SS and most of the players than to curse WG for except bad performance.

In short, yes, shadows and textures are a lot better than 9.3.

By: Rexxie

Rexxie — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:15:12 +0000

The old shadows in the old render were extremely crisp and sharp. Im not sure you’re remembering correctly. They looked great, but most of the shadows were baked, not dynamic. Adding shadows that good looking to the dynamic shadows (which WG was heading towards) had a pretty severe performance hit, so they ended up severely downgrading the shadow quality in order to retain performance.

Anyway, just to calm you down, here’s what shadows look like on the current live server – extremely bad. That fuzz in the light spots on the barrel is the grain filter, which moves around with the camera (like those silly old cartoons). The first image is on max settings, the second image is with medium (god forbid someone actually look close at the shadows on medium quality):

http://i.imgur.com/Fs8lQy0.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rVTd3JN.jpg

That’s how the game is.

By: SectR

SectR — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:13:38 +0000

The current ones aren’t grainy (not with everything on the absolute max settings), that was the situation of shadows almost an year ago before they changed/altered them, that’s exactly how the game is, the only difference, as I mentioned before, is the cheap “applied” DoF and the slight modification of the color filter, the shadows only appear to be more awesome than some seem to think around here simply because of the new “HD” remodels and their extremely more detailed textures that have more detail with reflections and darkening of various parts simulating uneven surfaces.

That’s how the game is.

By: Rexxie

Rexxie — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:04:29 +0000

Even the shadows? For example, this image of the concept:

http://i.imgur.com/gdAOQZM.jpg

Has far, far better shadow quality than what is currently on the live server – the current ones are very… grainy, I suppose you’d say. I also heard that 9.4 has had the shadow render tweaked. I’m curious if I can actually look forward to those good looking shadows next patch or that’s just a result of whatever ENB these images are taken with.

By: Corvi

Corvi — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:02:12 +0000

I doubt it will be a german reward tank. Its a tank in german use, yes, but the camo on it is russian ..