Featuring grass in game

[DEATH eVADER]

So, the real question is, why not have it in more games? I wouldn't necessarily say its down to hardware these days.... well depending on how realsitic you want it to look anyway. I want to show you two comparison
shots, one from Delta Force 2, which was released back in 1999, and the more recent Fifa 2006 that pretty much has grass that actually sticks out from the ground

So why hold back the technology

 

[DrDevin]

Well it used to be hardware intensive but with pixel and vertex shaders it has become easier. I think your right, I want grass!

http://www.ati.com/developer/shaderx/ShaderX_AnimatedGrass.pdf

It hides poor textures and adds variation so the ground in games looks a lot more interesting. I hope the next wave of games starts to include grass (U3 I'm looking at you!)

HL3 better have it too!

 

[Loke]

Tiger Woods 06

http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2005/214/reviews/929353_20050803_screen002.jpg
http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/652/652777/tiger-woods-pga-tour-06-20050927065205225.jpg

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Tiger Woods 06

http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2005/214/reviews/929353_20050803_screen002.jpg
http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/652/652777/tiger-woods-pga-tour-06-20050927065205225.jpg

It looks like its got speedtree working in the background too, thanks for the link DrDevon

 

[jellydoughnut217]

Loke honestly wtf is up with this sudden rise of chuck norris?

 

[Loke]

He's my hero.

 

[RandomX]

It would take a lot of time to create lots of different grass (so it doesn't look like an endless repeating strand of the same grass over and over). It's overlooked much of the time because the developers are more busy putting other features into the game. Would Half-Life 2 look a lot better with grass like that? It would probably cause more framerate issues than happy moments.