Terrain and forest rendering in The Hunter

jmakitalo · 2012-11-09T13:51:43

Are you familiar with the game called The Hunter (released 2009 I believe, link)? I'm not a huge fan of hunting games, but I'm trying to make an online FPS with some realistic forest environments and then I ran into this game. The graphics are simply stunning. IMHO the terrain and forest look a lot better than in Battlefield 3 or ARMA 2. The terrain texturing is really detailed and sharp and yet there's not a sign of tiling. I could not find too much information about the technology (Avalanche engine), so how do you think they have made the renderer? The trees and foliage also look really great and they are rendered densely while still giving nice frame rates. I think they are using some sort of impostors for far away trees, but the density is still quite striking. The environment is also made successfully quite lively, as all the close up branches and foliage wave in the wind, there are all sorts of birds, butterflies, mosquitos, mice, and the sorts, going around. I recommend taking a look, it can be downloaded free of charge.

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Started by jmakitalo June 14, 2012 07:55 PM

9 comments, last by billybob647 11 years, 5 months ago

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November 09, 2012 01:51 PM

I googled a bit and saw a forum post about a graphics bug/glitch/whatever where the trees which were like 10 meters far appeared as rectangles with the tree in the middle and greenish color elsewhere, so id say they use impostors.

no it happend to me and i just downloaded the game

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