Originally posted by Amorphism
Hmm.. what does it mean "no height maps"?

A height map is, as someone already mentioned, a means of producing 3d looking terrain. it is done by taking a 2d plane, a grid of points forming polygons facing one directions. Place the plane facing up towards the "sky" and then move the points( vertexes) of the plane up or down to form the ground. Many games use this as a simple form of map making. The unreal engine uses height maps to some effect for some of it's outdoors.

There are major negative effects with height maps though. First being that a very simple height map looks very very bad. The second is that since vertex can only be moved up or down, you can never create a cave or any other structure where any vertex of the plane would be moved in any direction but up and down. AFAIK, most good mmo's wouldn’t use pure height maps in a game, but a combination of different techniques.

But to answer your question, I think what they are trying to say is that they created the whole world in a 3d modeler, by hand. Not that this is anything fancy, because WoW did the same thing. It gives you a really nice looking world, but it takes a very very long time to make the world.

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Originally posted by xLudox
This game is going to be revolutionary, along with Age of conan. <3 REAL pvp.

Note: To those worried about this game will ever see daylight, It will.
the reason for this huge delay (3 years) because of the main company who had it's office in norway couldn't find enough investors or capital in Norway, and had to move on... to Greec.

Now they are working with annother company, from Greec, and have more then enough investors to finish off this game. GL HF!

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While I think this game has a better chance of coming out more then 5 years ago btw. As with mourning, dark and light, the trend of overseas titles seems to be "promise the world, release crap". Because of all these delays, promises of clan beta etc , I doubt many who followed this title have your optimism. It's been another year come and gone and a PR pitch to bring people back to the forums and talking about the game.

What will impress me is actually reading a "review" at this point. Hey I want this game to come out as much as the next guy, but so did allot of people with the latest bs release of DnL. So eh call me skeptical for now till something is actually released. However I am less skeptical a few months ago, but now I am about back to were I was previously before this announcment of clan beta that went dead as well.