Wow i really like the new trees and grass, the way they are shading is amazing and very realistic!

Still experimenting. This time I used a different type of leaves. I have problems with the right balance of lights and colors. I need to do more tests.

Looks very good!

That does look good. What kind of frame rate are you able to achieve in those scenes?

Pretty low actually, about 6-10 fps, but I'm using old laptop, and settings are set very high. Also, I didn't do much yet to optimize performance (like LODs).

I was thinking, that maybe you guys could do me a favor and test performance for me? I would be very indebted. If anyone would be willing, here is the link to this project (windows).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2UJDG_...sp=sharing

You can change worlds pressing 1-4 on keybord, Enter to show options and Esc to quit. Moving using WSAD.

Just move around a bit, and post how many fps you get.

World 1 - 20 to 50 FPS
World 2 - 30 to 60 FPS (5 to 7 when looking at water )
World 3 - 20 to 40 FPS
World 4 - 20 to 35 FPS

I think it's rather low because i run Skyrim 1920x1080 max quality at 60+ FPS
But it's very beautiful though!

UPD:
Core i7 2600k
32Gb DDR3
Nvidia GeForce 560 Ti

Thank you This is test project, and as write before, I didn't do any performance optimization so this is actually no strange. Thank you again, this will help me a lot.

I'm very interested in this as I have struggled to maintain a 30fps min in my game with high density vegetation scenes like these.

I have typically had to group many grass models into one, add LODs (especially to the trees), reduce the distance they are rendered at, and reduce the shadow quality in order to do so. I've found Dynamic Shadows are very expensive in terms of frame rates!

I have a GTX460 which I admit is getting a bit out dated now but it still plays most AAA games with good frame rates.

I'm downloading your project now and will post my test results as soon as I've got them.

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Very nice levels!

My results:

World 1 - 12 to 32 FPS
World 2 - 15.5 to 35 FPS (6 looking at ocean)
World 3 - 10 to 40 FPS
World 4 - 7.8 to 30 FPS

Out of interest, what hardware are you running Houge?

World 1 - 19 to 44
World 2 - 23 to 45
World 3 - 17 to 37
World 4 - 18 to 42

AMD FX8320 8 core 3.5GHz
32GB DDR3 DDR3-1600
AMD HD7850

World 1 - 30-60 fps
World 2 - solid 60 fps
World 3 - solid 60 fps
World 4 - solid 60 fps

World 1 dips to 30 fps when facing the tree/grass area with the hills with the structures at your back.

i7-4790K
8 Gb DDR3 1866
Geforce 980 GTX

Nice work on the look & feel!

I'm on a GTX 770 with a relatively weak processor, but even so, I stayed above 40 except when water was in the frustum(and then it was down to ~30). Average was around 50fps, estimated. Was this compiled post-water fix?

@Rebus No, it was compiled before water fix.

I want to everyone who post fps result thanks very much! With this, I have much clearer picture how heavy this type of vegetation is. Now it will be more easier to balance between quality/performance.

Fairly weak pc here.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz
4 GB Ram
Radeon HD 4890 Cyclone

World 1 - 6-20 FPS
World 2 - 20-35 FPS
World 3 - 13-18 FPS
World 4 - 15-20 FPS

Had in the options the shadowmap size to 1024 and the AO to Low, 1280xSomething resolution but also keep in mind i'm playing every game on almost full low with around 30-50 or some cases 60 fps depending on game.

Also i'm very impressed with the vegetation and the trees. One question though did you change the normals of trees, grass and plants to something else than the default vertical direction because they are shadowing very well.
Finally even though i guess those scenes are tests try to add a nice skybox like the ones in this site http://www.cgskies.com/skies.php, they have like 3000x1500 free samples but they are skydome textures and you'll need to make them skyboxes. Also i prefer to use my skyboxes as Stars in Esenthel since i can give the color tint and fade that i like i like and that matches it with fog even better.

great looking scenery... immersive with lots of atmosphere...

world 1 - ~5.2
world 2 - ~7.8
world 3 - ~3.6
world 4 - ~5.6

amd A8-6500 4 core with radeon 8570D integrated gpu

maybe adding options to disable hdr, bloom, shadows, etc would help lower specd systems, though i'm sure it would take away from the beauty of the scene...

--Mike

@georgatos7 Forgive me late reply, I didn't saw you edit your post. Yes, I change normals, I'm using automatic script in my tree generator, but I think you can do this also in most 3d editors like Maya, 3D Max. There should be also Blender addons. Probably.

Thanks you for suggestion about skybox.

Also thanks you guys for fps test and nice words.