Hello everyone, thanks for the comments. The pack should be out this week, either today or tomorrow.
Quote from: CCC on December 19, 2009, 10:28:55 PM
Lot of details and realistic coloring. The only thing that seems missing which you may want to add in a later release is stones which may have been to hard to do here, don't know and there are no true sense of mountain chains, just patchy plains hills and valleys. Overall though, there is a lot of nice eye candy here.
Hi CCC, the reason there are no stones is that there are roughness artifacts that prevent renders from much less than 200 meters or so above the surface. The cause of these aritfacts, as best I can tell, are the scales of some of the displacements and roughness settings (for example, the continent discpalement has a very large feature scale). I have tried every method I know of to try to eliminate these problems but have had no luck. My only hope is that planetside will be able to address such issues in a future release.
As for the mountains, I agree that there are indeed quite a few patchy spots. While these are things I would like to tune in the future, I'm not going to put off the release anymore.