Ver 1.31 Info / Unity 3d testing this fall

[MP Sarge]

Monday, 31 August 2009 09:40 
Playnet, Inc. Announces Upgrade to its Proprietary UNITY 3D MMO Game Engine, Advancing Graphics and Game Play for WWII ONLINE: BATTLEGROUND EUROPE, Delivering New Features and Technologies to MMO Game Application Suite.

BEDFORD, TX, August 31, 2009 – Playnet Inc. today announced version 1.5 of its proprietary UNITY 3D game engine providing new features and integrating new technology for its MMO, WWII ONLINE: BATTLEGROUND EUROPE (www.battlegroundeurope.com).


 

The UNITY 3D game engine delivers a unique set of features for MMO design, allowing for play in huge, zoneless worlds with thousands of simultaneous players interacting in a variety of environments. The foundation of the engine includes advanced physics, component-based damage and military-grade ballistics. UNITY 3D has been utilized to produce a one-of-a-kind massively multiplayer experience in WWII ONLINE: BATTLEGROUND EUROPE, a combined-arms action/simulation game. It allows players to fight on the ground as infantry, command and crew vehicles such as tanks, fighters and bombers entirely in first-person featuring British, French and German forces.

 

Version 1.5 of the UNITY 3D game engine adds several key features including;

• New object instancing for improved efficiency in loading and display of huge game world and object libraries
• Shader 3.0 support for upgraded performance and effects
• Upgraded Normal and Specular Mapping for enhanced object visuals
• SpeedTree 4.2 Support
• ODE physics support for rag-doll style character animations
• Added support for OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)

The UNITY 3D game engine powers the latest major upgrade to the massively multiplayer online game, WWII ONLINE: BATTLEGROUND EUROPE. Version 1.31, currently in Beta testing, will include updated graphics, effects, terrain objects and game play. Screenshots available at www.battlegroundeurope.com/131media .

• 1,000,000+ trees updated with new models, textures, normals and shadows
• Rag doll physics applied to infantry animations
• Many new special effects including muzzle flashes, hit effects and explosions
• Tree and object shadows
• Real-time water reflections
• New clutter system and objects adding thousands of grass fields and bushes
• New radial clutter system
• Dynamic Weather with new clouds/rain/sky/fog/lighting settings
• Thousands of new and updated terrain objects such as buildings, installations and cultural objects

 

[MP Sarge]

Check OUt the new Graphics.  The rag doll  effects of the troops is going to be great. Also the weather looks great on the videos they posted on YouTube. Looks like after 7 yrs It is becoming a really nice game, Well more reviews later, here are the Youtube Videos of the new version in testing, beta testing will be in fall this year

v1.31 Beta- Effects & Terrain Objects Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPsMuEX4E_U&feature=related 
( Sure does beat the Hard forrests and the X trees and bushes that were from a few years ago.And where the Large wooded area were just a big Square where you could not get into. we had to drive around them.)

v1.31 Beta- Infantry Rag Doll Effects Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpPIBvZEwuc&feature=related 
(these have came a Long way also. Not like the squared off figures, Also they fall more life like, what they call the rag doll effect. More graphic also. Shows blood splatter and well the video explain better)

v1.31 Beta- Weather Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB76DZM2uFg&feature=related
(what we always wanted in AH, They will have rain and clouds, thunder as by this video.)
weather test 2
http://www.battlegroundeurope.com/downloads/beta_rain2.wmv




here is how the Damage model works in ww20l. how it makes it as real as it can be.  and why things dont go boom all the time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzpUVtVUBTI

[MP Sarge]

Capture Mechanics

There has been a lot of speculation regarding capture mechanisms changing for 1.31 and indeed we are making some changes that I can outline for you today. First and foremost the capture table (or crate) is no longer a part of the game. Instead we will now use presence in the capture building to initiate capture. When you enter the building you’ll get a small capture dialog that tells you ownership and spawn capability and if you can capture the building similar to what you see today.

Capture will be continuous however. If you start the capture but die before completion but there is another member of your side in the building the capture will continue. If you die as the last man in the building the capture will begin to undo itself but you’ll still have time to return and try and continue the cap, it won’t immediately start over. The other side to this coin is that it will take longer to capture than at present.

This change in mechanic will offer us a starting point for some of the other features we are considering including having capture affected by the numbers of attackers and defenders present as well as dramatically reducing the ability for single players to affect a capture. We’ll have plenty of time to play test this in open test and we’ll want all of you to come and give us a hand when we declare testing days.

[MP Sarge]

Some thing to look at till the beta comes out for all pay subs to try out. will have fun testing this, testing really lets me know the game before it comes out Live.










New Pill Boxes to Hide in I mean die in...lol

[MP Sarge]

Looking forward to beta to come out for testing. hopefully share some moivies, Also Specs on System will be coming out soon, and some system builds that will support New version of game



New video on Ragdoll effects test 2 for next upgrade


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3SggazrzAw&feature=player_embedded


Weather testing #2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9D2Rs5z_c

[MP Sarge]

have the beta offline testing going on right now. I saved it to you tube. But quality is down ON transfer, But i used fraps to get it. The is the rain and thunder coming into 1.31. Still offline testing but will go live beta for stress testing. Also i will have new specs for minimum PC to use will be soon. but here is my youtube link

 http://www.youtube.com/user/mpsarge2#p/u/0/zNaRiv0iITM

[MP Sarge]

Live Beta testing starting 22 Feb 10  good chance for testing your system to see if it can handle the new ww2 coming out. also get to check out the rain/ thunder, Rag doll effects of the more realistic type death animations,

[daddog]

Rain looks very cool sarge!