07.01.2008, 10:05
Oh noo, I will be the black sheep now but,
This is definitely “no go” for old computers like mine. I tried it with 512 Mb of RAM and load time of the map is in tens of minutes. Page file memory was at 1,5 Gb. The map is too big; I think that average computers still can’t handle this with ease. TOO BIG.
Definitely no way that this map can be played online, but because of its waste space it’s ideal for offline history campaigns. In a mater of fact, this is the first time that I run out of fuel, and it was set at 100%. I fly over maybe one third of the map, but that was for over 2 hours long. That is excellent. That is real Pacific, but it is too huge for some comfort use on average computers.
Although there was some nicely shape islands and coves, one thing gets in my eyes, forests. I know that is jungle and that has to be that way, but one forest pattern that repeats over and over on big amount of land is to monotony (boring) and looks like some giant green carpet. Maybe to break that green with some holes without forest texture? Or maybe if it can be mix of two types (or more) of forests texture? Just to break monotony.
Skunk, this is great effort and beautiful job, which is obviously done with great love to the mater and with great knowledge, but please don’t be pissed on my critics.
Good:
Big land to fly over it. At lasts something with real feeling of Pacific. Perfectly shaped terrain, most of the islands are beautiful. Perfect air strips, with “real” look. I getting a wish to go inside it settle on some smaller island and make my house with some hydroplane beside it and to live there.
Bad:
Too big, memory assumption is enormous. Big islands look dull because of repeating forest pattern. A small islands looks flat. Overall “feeling” is in some degree (not much) generic, it misses more diversity in texture maps, look of the islands, especially small ones, and it needs a “human touch” maybe some more hand placed objects.
I am off to fly north-west part now (another 2-3 hours of flying)
I didn’t see "naked"; island, but I see some cloud shadow issues.
![[Image: 2skunk.jpg]](http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg75/AvalaNo1/2skunk.jpg)
![[Image: 3skunk.jpg]](http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg75/AvalaNo1/3skunk.jpg)
This is definitely “no go” for old computers like mine. I tried it with 512 Mb of RAM and load time of the map is in tens of minutes. Page file memory was at 1,5 Gb. The map is too big; I think that average computers still can’t handle this with ease. TOO BIG.
Definitely no way that this map can be played online, but because of its waste space it’s ideal for offline history campaigns. In a mater of fact, this is the first time that I run out of fuel, and it was set at 100%. I fly over maybe one third of the map, but that was for over 2 hours long. That is excellent. That is real Pacific, but it is too huge for some comfort use on average computers.
Although there was some nicely shape islands and coves, one thing gets in my eyes, forests. I know that is jungle and that has to be that way, but one forest pattern that repeats over and over on big amount of land is to monotony (boring) and looks like some giant green carpet. Maybe to break that green with some holes without forest texture? Or maybe if it can be mix of two types (or more) of forests texture? Just to break monotony.
Skunk, this is great effort and beautiful job, which is obviously done with great love to the mater and with great knowledge, but please don’t be pissed on my critics.
Good:
Big land to fly over it. At lasts something with real feeling of Pacific. Perfectly shaped terrain, most of the islands are beautiful. Perfect air strips, with “real” look. I getting a wish to go inside it settle on some smaller island and make my house with some hydroplane beside it and to live there.
Bad:
Too big, memory assumption is enormous. Big islands look dull because of repeating forest pattern. A small islands looks flat. Overall “feeling” is in some degree (not much) generic, it misses more diversity in texture maps, look of the islands, especially small ones, and it needs a “human touch” maybe some more hand placed objects.
I am off to fly north-west part now (another 2-3 hours of flying)
I didn’t see "naked"; island, but I see some cloud shadow issues.