Thanks for the answers Greypawn
A question about unit animations - I don't know if it's something with the demo, but I'm assuming my computer is up to it (3.2ht, 7800 gs, 2 gigs, blah blah) - running at high res, all details cranked to max, the model animations look REALLY rough. Units trampled go from standing up to on their back in about 2 frames, units walking look like the have 5 frame running animations. This even holds true for many of the larger, more detailed units.
Is this just me not used to the animations, or something specific to the demo? I'd swear the various teaser movies shown up to this point have shown units with a higher level of detail on all unit animations, but I'm just not seeing it ingame. It doesn't seem to be an overall framerate issue, this demo runs fine, just a unit animation issue.
Not, admittedly, a significant gameplay gripe, I'm just curious, since the movies do look so nice.
[This message has been edited by mtrixis (edited 05-02-2006 @ 00:56 AM).]