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I have yet to play 0.6, though I eagerly await its beta. I've seen and heard about the increased view distance, but what i'm really wondering about the possibility of an increase draw distance for grass. Is 0.6 going to bring the ability to hide in the grass at long ranges? Or would this have too large of an impact on system performance? Have any steps been made in this direction?

undergrowth (ie, grass) draw distance will not change, BF2's undergrowth was never ment for concealment and for that, it cant handel it very well. It was only desgined to make the ground look nicer

what is ment is that we have one map with 1000m view distance, and also there has been a large increase in the draw distance of player models and vehicles so you can see them at that distance. Thous are the main changes. Not all maps are suddnely going to have there view distance increased, so you dont need to worrie about lag. the only ones that will are ones that can handel the new view distances.

We made our own grass, renders out to long distances, not all maps have it.

'[R-DEV wrote:eggman']We made our own grass, renders out to long distances, not all maps have it.

This is "Overgrowth" grass, put in big blocks and not used very often as you can only really put it on flag ground, IE, fileds.

but ye gd point egg

horray for grass!

Jimmy_Smack wrote:horray for grass!

Indeed.

*lights blunt*

Jimmy_Smack wrote:horray for grass!

Its already been used in v0.5 on Hill of Hamyoung near the UK main spawn

Yay for weeds!

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino']Its already been used in v0.5 on Hill of Hamyoung near the UK main spawn

can it be used in operation phoenix or steel thunder ?

Or Qwai River... basically every map with grass... but it sure takes time to change it.

'[R-DEV wrote:eggman']We made our own grass.

You'd get arrested for that round here......

So draw distances for infantry and everything is high on all maps?

That is all i really care for, high view distance means **** when stuff doesn't draw.

danthemanbuddy wrote:So draw distances for infantry and everything is high on all maps?

That is all i really care for, high view distance means **** when stuff doesn't draw.

everything draws.... [RDEV]Katarn would have you believe it was him who did this. To an extent, it was but without my constant bitching at him to see if it could be done it never would have happened. True Story.....

Since even custom grass will probably bog down a computer when there are huge draw distances are the maps with huge draw distances mostly desert maps?

solodude23 wrote:Everyone thank Katarn for giving the long draw distance to everything. Its amazing seeing infantry as ants 800m away. (Give or take, hehe)

Thank you Katarn.

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino']

what is ment is that we have one map with 1000m view distance, and also there has been a large increase in the draw distance of player models and vehicles so you can see them at that distance.

Sweet!
Snyper Tyme!

@Dev's,So does that mean the grass in MAO VALLEY will still be just as frustrating?
In that, You think you are concealed but enemy which is up on a hill/further than 50 metres away,
will still see you CLEAR AS DAY???


Another question to the Dev's,
will HILLS OF HAMGYONG be ballanced out at all in v0.6 ???