Actually this is simply a video of something I was working on (completed), FL has something similar but it is simply sheet rain (billboarded texture). In the video it is 3000 individual particles.

Anyways, his post didn't bother me in the least. I'm willing to listen to all and weigh it accordingly.

EDIT : @ Sol, yeah the snow has been done, looks like a blizzard at warp

That's crazy talk Chips you nutter The game doesn't exist yet, all I'm doing is looking at the videos and using a little imagination, doesn't mean anything, but if LS is reading feedback then he might like a little imagination in the mix. By the time he's done with it a long long time from now who knows what it will look like or what features it might or might not have. Worry about it when the time comes.

Hey LS, remember I mentioned a while ago about you perhaps moving onto directX 11, don't know if you're aware but many of the games in development right now, some like battlefield 3 for example won't be supporting directx 9 or win XP. Might be food for thought somewhere down the line.

Looks great to me!

But then I guess I'm easily pleased, LS.

Is the snow just for me? Brrrrr!!

Yep, and it's a huge GPU hog that only works on a tiny tiny fraction of the user base he'll have.

DX 11 is still pretty new, plus I don't have it. I will be considered later on but for now all I can do is watch the videos. Thanks anyways, I've actually seen the first video, I use YouTube to get ideas for graphic enhancements.

Funny part about the snow, thats what it's doing outside right now.

My bad, he did say GPU, apologies FF, obviously I either need glasses or I should steel more carrots off you ST you mad wabbit! There's no rush is there, I've got at least a couple more years to pester you about it LS.

GPU tesselation has been around for awhile, it's a standard feature on ATI cards since I believe the 8500 (when DX 9 had just come out). I've played with it, for a single mesh it's fine, any more than that and you notice considerable slowdown.

For displacement mapping I will be using parallax occlusion mapping. It works fine in DX 9, I still have alot of tweaking to do with it though since it is a GPU hog. Once I get back to work on it I plan on making it like the way Stalker does it, at a certain distance it switches over to plain normal mapping.