NATURE AND VEGETATION SYSTEMS IN DAYZ | What do you think of the vegetation systems in DayZ? Let's discuss.

[dannyboyle 15]

I'm opening this thread so we can share our opinions on DayZ's nature and vegetation systems, what you like and what you don't like, I don't mean animals, this can refer to trees and plants, snow, ice, water, skybox and different biomes, cultivation and sowing.

I've always loved DayZ's vegetation systems, the way the grass or branches move, how well-defined the leaves are, how the tree trunks shake in the wind, I think it's one of the best I've seen. One thing that terrifies me about the future of DayZ is that the vegetation won't get as much love as it has in old DayZ. I like the vegetation in ARMA Reforger, but I don't get the same feeling as I did with DayZ.

DayZ Sakhal snow storm

In my opinion, I think the vegetation design in DayZ is almost perfect, it could be better, everything could be improved, but it feels very good, I think it's a great attraction of the game on a visual level which greatly improves immersion. The snow fall effect of Sakhal is also very good, and the snow on the ground also feels uneven, rough, textured, it doesn't feel flat, maybe a system where the snow accumulates as it snows and then melts would be great.

Something I don't like is the flat ground textures, I know it's something of an engine limitation, but I've seen areas of the game that are better cared for than many others.One thing I love about Unreal Engine 5 is that it has allowed devs to completely eliminate flat ground textures, something I think is a current problem in many proprietary engine-based video games, and Enfusion is one of them. In most games if you look between the grass you will see that the ground is obviously flat, there is no depth.

In this image you can see the texture is flat and even too square, lacking variety or organicity, when in reality there should be more detail like rocks and the plants covering the entire area, since it is land, it is better to leave it alone with the texture. Cobblestones could also have been placed to separate the road from the dirt area.

The effect of flat textures isn't as annoying when there's a lot of grass because the grass covers it up, the design of the fields is excellent, the main problem is in restricted areas, riverbanks, roadsides, weeds in the middle of asphalt or cement.

 

The leaves on the forest floor in ChernarusPlus help a lot to improve that ugly feeling of flat textures in the grassless clearings.

 

I loved the detail of this stream from ChernarusPlus, It seems silly but whoever did it put a lot of dedication into it It is very well created, it has its flat textures but combines bushes, the stream bed, volumetric rocks of different sizes, trees, herbs of different heights and varieties, varied flat ground textures. 

This stream really surprised me with its level of detail. This is the love and detail that should be in the game, if a smaller map is necessary, so be it.

 

 

I'd like to post YouTube videos, but the forum won't let me embed them. I'm getting an error message, whether I'm using a mobile or fiber optic network.

 

 

[Judley 26]

Those river shots like amazing