WIP Beta released Riverside Expressway [Beta 2]

You know what this map is perfect for, LOD's

 

I does have LOD's.

 

yea, if up u put it on low settings u can see it change between lods (the road)

 

What are LODS?

 

Level Of Detail. When driving a map you can see the LOD line travelling in front of you. Kinda annoying.

 

So basically anisotropic filtering?or am I getting them mixed up

 

Good technical question I need to find out. I imagine AF has something to do with it at some point.

 

LODs and AF are something completely different.

For LODs the designer has to create different versions of his meshes with different "levels of detail". Usually there is a high-poly, mid-poly and low-poly version of the same mesh. These different LODs will then get swapped out by the engine at runtime depending on how far away the object is.

Anisotropic-Filtering improves the quality of textures when looking at them from extreme viewing angles.

 

Thanks Mr.Hankey. That makes complete sense now.

 

This map is one of my favorites. It has very great detail and when driving this map feels very smooth and clean. Great work!

 

Because it's on low detail. Of course on low detail the game changes where and what LODs should appear in favor of best performance . Not best looks. If you're on high settings though, this is inverted and it favors high detail vs performance.

 

my point was to demonstrate it has lods

 

This map is the kind of map I want the devs to make for the full release, It would be so amazing doing street races.

 

We would never see LJFhutch again...

 

Amazing looking map, well done!

 

This map is truley amazing.

Quick question though: Will the barricades soon be replaced by new roads in the future?

Thanks

 

I believe this is an open ended project and updates will include opening up various sections. The amount of effort in this map is too great to let it just die.

 

Yes, the map is of course open ended since it's based on a real-world location, but I'll be putting 'released' tags on it once all the buildings are finished on the existing road segments. No updates at the moment due to my time-intensive postgrad architecture course, but definitely not a dead project.

 

Well there's no doubt whatsoever you are into architecture.

 

Wow! This looks amazing! Cant wait to give it a try. I live in Brisbane and recognised this riverside expressway immediately. Looks spot on.

Thanks for your efforts