Graphics in this game...

Soooo... like I said, there's nothing WRONG with the current graphics. You act like I said they were "cutting edge", or something...

Bottom line is that there is plenty of eye candy in this game to be enjoyable. I actually have trouble seeing things if there's too much detail, like Skyrim. I miss stuff all the time.

Skyrim is an example of taking it too far. Which is kinda cool that graphics have now gotten to the point of "too far".

And TOR is also set a few thousand years before the movies... stuff can change in that amount of time

Unpolished textures (bleeding edges, not fitting meshes)

Textures that doesn't look good

Overdo features: body proportions, shoulder pads, backpacks, weapons...

Non SW fitting gear appearance

Totally unrealistic building design: huge doors or corridors that serve no purpose, bases that doesn't look at all build with military intelligence, weird space fleet design,.

Oh, hehe, sure enough.

Well, here's some screenies I just took, anyway. You can see how much better the graphics really are:

On my ship. XS FTW!
Voss Arrival
Voss-Ka taxi
Voss Countryside in "Very High" goodness
Texture, lighting and shadow on a Vorantikus
And from the other side - As you can see from the last two, especially, the textures and lighting in this game are actually very good. I think any perceived lack of texture is actually a dislike of the art style, which is NOT GRAPHICS.

Texture and lighting on my character
Urban landscape, Coronet City, Corellia

No, there's nothing wrong with the graphics in this game. I think the problem some people have, once again, is the art style.


EDIT - Grr, stupid photobucket resized my screenies. Anyway, you can still see the texture, lighting and shadows.

EDIT2 - fixed

Opinion. Although i do feel that there are quite a few that need sharpening up to a higher quality.

Its called an art style. *shrugs*

Care to list some examples? Honestly, I am not 100% on

Agree to an extent, but i also feel that some of this fits into the art style part that i listed higher up.

Sorry let me rephrase it.

Here's what's wrong:

• Unpolished textures (bleeding edges, not fitting meshes)
• Textures that doesn't look good
• Overdo features: body proportions, shoulder pads, backpacks, weapons...
• Non SW fitting gear appearance
• Totally unrealistic building design: huge doors or corridors that serve no purpose, bases that doesn't look at all build with military intelligence, weird space fleet design,.

I've been to the SW identities expo in Montreal and well the stuff I saw from the movies is totally the opposite of what you can find in TOR.

Everything is nicely and finely polished, down to the details you won't be able to notice in the movies but it's there.
Every item, space ship, building, has been designed in the mindset of being futuristic but first being realistic, usable and well not to look like brand new but old from usage.


Let's take HOTH in SWTOR vs in the movie. In one it's a desert and arid planet in the other it's overpopulated with NPC, POI, bases everywhere. In one the base look like actually adapted to the environment and well hidden. In the other nearly all of them does not even fit the surroundings and the layout makes no sense at all. Even I don't see any military people willing to defend such poorly lay out places.

The difference is in the details and TOR has most of them wrong.

Yeah.those are how mine look too in TOR. But if you zoom in much on your chars..the armor will not be that detailed. And your shadows are like they are....Lego style. Overall Rift looks better than TOR does. And even WoW has better armor detailing and shadows.

And do you notice in TOR how the grass seems to grow in the distance as you move ?...lol. Even with the grass and trees set to max.