The Trouble With Trees

Some minor annoyances occupied too much modding time this evening, time which had already been cut short by seeing the new Prince of Persia movie.  While I could point out a number of weaknesses in the movie, I think it might actually be the first "good" movie based on a computer game.

Anyway, I must thank the very helpful mikemike37 and Kilrogg_ for their advice regarding an issue with tree appearance. Another "post trees to local" and a quick in-game test later, and my trees now look fine within Dragon Age.  They still are occasionally flaky in the toolset, but as long as they're fine in the game itself, I don't care.  Now if only I could fix the minimaps exported by the game so they don't have a horrible dark line along one edge I'd be close to getting rid of all the graphical glitches that are annoying me. (Another is the colour of water in a level, but I think that is due to the water being too reflective)

Aside from that, I was able to do a little bit of plot management, scripting and some short cutscene work. Doing real cutscenes involving camera movement and animation is time consuming - I certainly don't consider myself a director by any standards, and I doubt I will turn into one any time soon. Still, by keeping camera cuts short (even though I often hate that in directing) I can convey information quickly and without hours of effort on my part. My main hope is that it is effective in helping to tell the story and show some action.