Procedural grass in Outerra

[@gorgolyt]

it's amazing how much this adds to the realism of an outdoor scene.

[@DragonsLord76]

Афигеннейшая технология! Автору респект и уважуха!

[@S-Nova0]

Biomes are basically the different types of land on our Earth, such as desert, dedicious forest, coniferous forest, rainforest, steppe and so on. In the game, there seems to be only a default biome modeled on Temperate Dedicuous Forest - which is the biome found usually in places like Western and Central Europe and parts of America. Hope that helps.

[@S-Nova0]

Everything about Outerra just looks unbelievable so far. I think the next step for world generation is to develop biomes, as there seems to be only a Temperate Dedicious Biome at the moment. If rainforest, savannah and desert could be implemented, with different trees and grass - it would pretty much perfectly match the world (seeing as we already have top-notch Earth height maps).

[@locater16]

Looks great, as with everything I've seen of this project. But the pop-in is, as with all such things, fairly noticeable once you look for it. Have you ever considered generated impostors for extending the range?

[@BranoKemen]

Not sure what you mean exactly, but there's some description of the approach in the blog post linked in the description.

[@BranoKemen]

Yes, the full version has 3D grass, people who supported the development by buying the alpha are getting earlier access even to stuff that will be later enabled in the free demo as well, plus more stuff that's not in the demo.

[@juttyism]

Nvidia applauses your work and thanks you for moving technology forward.

[@StarForgeGame]

It looks awesome! Love what you are doing here.

[@Learil]

I'm kinda high right now but i can still safely say that this is the most beautiful grass i have seen so far

[@fog340]

My Brother an avid gamer if i may add, Just walked in and asked my "Why are you watching nature videos ?" The look of disbelief on his face when i told him its a game engine was just priceless..

[@Sp1kerPistol]

This engine is just... EPIC!

[@Dealer486]

Did you saw the Proland it is awesome too!

[@94xxxBehemothxxx94]

Oddly enough, i just purchased the engine and now performance is much better with everything to the max. And yes lol i admit that i was doing trial and error when i pushed all these sliders.

[@fkkkkkenig]

it's pointless to point out flaws at this time because the video is solely meant to showcase the grass, for an engine that is still in development and not ready for commercial release. That's really all there is to it.

[@S-Nova0]

Yeah that's why I'd call it more of a broadleaf forest environment, despite the coniferous trees. Furthermore, the trees are too sparse to even call it a taiga. Hopefully they will get biomes sorted out and Outerra will become truly amazing.

[@Cal.lm96]

Yeah dude Looks so Crazy !!! When u will add waving leaves ?^^

[@BranoKemen]

During WIP the grass is only available in the upgraded version, will get to the demo version later as well.

[@tanit]

Please increase the view distance for grass - popping up grass is such a distraction. It's been an issue in arma, and it's an issue here. Please make it at least 1000 meters or provide an option to change it - or better yet, include long distance grass rendering.

[@DragonsLord76]

What is procedural grass? What is the algorithm? At least in a nutshell. Also wondering how is swaying in the wind?

[@alextrazzz]

СУПЕР!!! Вот только какой же комп надо чтобы всё это воспроизвести на максималке и без тормозов.

[@fkkkkkenig]

This isn't a game, it's an engine, which is still in development. This was just to show off the texture of the grass.

[@alissonlares2926]

amazing engine... imagine when trees become in 3D. the best engine to create worlds for games.

[@staggabob]

It's using 2 million triangles to render this grass. It would need something like 40 million at a 1000 metres. It's not a case of just increasing the draw distance, what computer could run it smoothly?

[@skulleeman]

I find it amazing that a Minecraft world is still larger (But not quite as detailed :P).

[@fkkkkkenig]

"still in development" = isn't ready for commercial release. This video was meant to demonstrate one thing only, the grass and the level of detail it can show.

[@kaiserpanda]

how far in to the distance does the fractal'd grass-cover hull shape go?

[@CyclonicTuna023]

This is simply amazing. Keep up the great work :D!!

[@TouristTrophyRecord]

Brano are you planning to implement Kelvin Richardson features?

[@94xxxBehemothxxx94]

So if I understand correctly if i buy the engine instead of using the demo i'll have grass?

[@wrOngplan3t]

Where did you say you filmed this? :P Amazing work!

[@t.mikael.d]

Skyrim + Outerra + Oculous Rift = Better than life

[@Taaplari]

Speechless.

[@DisembodiedDave]

The video didn't really show off the grass well enough. It could have used a really long stationary shot so that any animation looping could be detected. Otherwise is was quite lovely.

[@CAuMOH]

Can you put download link to this song in description?

[@94xxxBehemothxxx94]

Alright thanks. Man this engine is crazy I had no grass and was having problems running it smoothly. with that grass it's gonna be impossible.

[@DwarvesH]

Seriously? How? True polygonal grass without billboarding? 2 million triangles only for grass? That's almost half the amount of triangles a mid level consumer GPU can output and still maintain reasonable but not great framerate (with very good batching). Oh well, I guess it's back to the drawing board! I need to do a quick polygonal grass test and see if I can get any acceptable results. PS: Do you mind if I try a similar techniques to the one you described in the blog post?

[@infiniterealities4D]

Mind blowing. So cool.

[@IHavePockets]

Basically, the different climates. Desert, rainforest, etc.

[@BranoKemen]

Well you said you had maxed it out, that's demanding. What is your graphics card?

[@MSilentstrikeM]

Could you add wild life and a bow so we can hunt?

[@cvoisineaddis]

How is the grass handled?

[@Spartan043]

This engine would be perfect for an MMO Action-Strategy/City-Building/Life Simulator game of some sort. Think The Settlers meets Second Life meets Planetside.

[@94xxxBehemothxxx94]

how the hell did you get grass in outerra? I have it installed with everything on max and there's no grass. you added grass yourself?

[@BranoKemen]

You should not max out every slider in terrain settings blindly, only the terrain quality - with the others one has to be careful because they can effectively downgrade the perf if adjusted wrongly.

[@LobotomyTC]

Another reason is server-side processing. MMOs tend to avoid non-essential processing as much as possible.

[@MrLudijak]

What are biomes?

[@OverAddictedGamers]

thing is, how computer intensive is this?

[@BranoKemen]

Yes it's based on OpenGL, but it could have been DirectX as well. Many years went into the development and experimenting, so it's kind of hard to simply tell what one would need to make it. Probably best to check out sites like gamedev.net and similar that can provide directions and some help too.

[@ssj4leon]

First thing I noticed. Things popping out of nowhere is distracting in every game and it's an issue that can't be fixed with any technique other than tessellation.

[@MMMAAATTTLLL]

Grass looks absolutely amazing trees look like shit

[@coppersn4ke]

they need to work on how it changes detail fields. really distracting when grass in the distance starts appearing in giant lines as you get closer.

[@luke.rayman]

It is so perfect, so beautiful... :O

[@DocWolph]

There needs to be a way to make and use content from game engines like this in 3d Progs. This would make so much so much EASIER.

[@dude_someshiet]

holyshit.. this is beyond words!

[@Szybki171]

Please make an survival-sandbox game like minecraft but not the same as minecraft. I'm gona buy it ! :D

[@MrMANUBZH56]

Imagine a MMOOW world DayZ with this engine !!!!

[@LePoudingue]

Gimme a Horse to go across the land...

[@oscillius]

I hope some day I'll be playing a game where all landscapes, towns, characters and even tasks and dialogs are generic (Daggerfall doesn't count).

[@Tapewormz]

Pretty cool, but the only problem with this is I guess is that they didn't research the effects coniferous trees have on grasses. The needles have a high ph and kill grasses. These trees all seem to be fir trees. The tech demo however is pretty cool. :D

[@ivandksd]

This looks like a High Definition Cheranarus from ARMA 2!!

[@adlsfreund]

the grass waving in the wind looks a bit too artificial.

[@ewerybody]

approved! pretty convincing! :]

[@tanit]

You just change the level of detail at range.

[@antza2]

Now let's take Outerra and SpaceEngine and put them together!

[@S-Nova0]

Actually climates and biomes are confused. Climate refers to the overall weather - the average temperature in summer/winter, the humidity, the average rainfall and so on. Biomes are the phyisical conditions on Earth, such as rainforest, grassland or desert. Climate greatly influences the biome, however altitude and distance from the sea also affects it. You can have a continental climate in a dedicious forest, but also even in a steppe grassland.

[@alanb4]

This with Minecraft = End of the world

[@multimediahelp1]

cool, but no SSS or different lighting.

So fucking awesome!

[@booploops22]

DAT GRASS

[@TouristTrophyRecord]

Arma3 + Outerra + Oculus + Alien PC = 30 FPS

[@94xxxBehemothxxx94]

I have a pretty good setup. Everything is pretty much top of the line except for my GPU which is right under top of the line. Specs: (Asrock z77 extreme 6, Intel I5 3570k, G.skill sniper low voltage ram (8gb), EVGA GTX 580 3072MB. So I am able to max it out with a constant 60 fps but that's not really maxing it out because if you look carefully not all the settings are under "graphics" i went under "terrain" and maxed every slider except the last one which causes a downgrade and i had bad fps.

[@GustavoMsTrashCan]

Now sir... make a Minecraft clone out of this, and you'll be rich.

[@ChezzyKnytt]

Looks like New Zealand :)

[@OneForSeeed]

Epic

[@Bobisuruncle54]

Any graphics card with a decent tessellation engine could manage it easily.

[@DnVTubers]

....Holy Cow.

[@BranoKemen]

Why would I mind, you are free to do as you wish :)

[@Inityx]

Can someone please somehow put this in minecraft

[@DerbyshireBangers]

Bring on PS3 Please

[@MrKostekPL]

if Skyrim had this graphics...

[@fkkkkkenig]

it's pointless to nitpick flaws when the video is showcasing only a single aspect of the environment and foregoing the rest. I'm not talking about consoles, at all, and I don't want to talk about consoles, stop trying to drag this into a console discussion :|

[@biffington]

The guys need to somehow make a sandbox mmo out of this, and have everyone play on one server. Shit, imagine Dayz on this engine? FUCK ME.

[@SaAbchikable]

a graphics could be 5 years ago

[@fkkkkkenig]

You're nitpicking at a demo video showing ONE aspect of an unfinished product. I keep saying it because you haven't addressed this beyond 'yeah I know but I'm gonna do it anyway'. ...On second thought, carry on. I can't argue with that kind of logic. Go get 'em tiger.

[@Stikku]

that music is fucking evil.

[@Spitznock]

Now to just work on those trees..

[@Luke130795]

I'm throwing money at the screen, but nothing is happening!

[@alextrazzz]

было бы хорошо.

[@skulleeman]

It just needs a few sheep and it would be perfect :D

[@Beolex]

Great game engine. If you need 3D models, contact me.

[@bantta5]

This could be skyrim x10

[@vladde8ori]

Hope I wont wake up the trolls but... Lord please let this terrain be used in Half life 2 episode 3

[@iAfrica18]

just want to mow DAT grass

[@bishopknight-sm]

Lawnmower Simulator 2014

[@bishopknight-sm]

Alright, lets just scrap ARMA 3 and start over with this engine... Come on Bohemia Interactive, make it happen or someone will beat you to it.

[@Murderface666]

You have to take into account that this type of grass requires more calculations, meaning extra work on top of everything else that is going on in a game. Add this type of grass to an online game specifically can drop performance big time.

[@Jefrejtor]

This grass needs some blood on it.

[@JohnSmith-gb8hd]

equals "Elite: Dangerous"

[@LobotomyTC]

This would be far too resource intensive for an MMO right now. MMORPGs have shitty graphics for a reason.

[@Spartan043]

One of the reasons why MMOs have such awful graphics is because they typically shoot for a wide audience, most of which won't have top-end gaming PCs. Maybe in about ten years, low-end hardware will be able to run this just fine.

[@fkkkkkenig]

Which I said is pointless, hence you've made the argument come full circle :|