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« Reply #280 on: August 25, 2020, 09:43:10 AM » |
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I'm not sure I'm seeing the normal maps or what seems to be ambient occlusion, but it looks very nice either way!
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« Reply #281 on: August 25, 2020, 09:54:44 AM » |
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I take it that this is seen in the various pixel-shades on the surfaces? If so, then indeed, I think that it provides a nice layer of detail that helps to make the surfaces feel a little more detailed, and thus place feel a bit more "real". ^_^
I'm not sure I'm seeing the normal maps or what seems to be ambient occlusion, but it looks very nice either way!
Well, I guess it is subtle enough then. :D I think it will be more visible in motion. While working on it I turned it on and off to make sure it's an improvement. Should have offered before/after pictures here as well.
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« Reply #282 on: August 25, 2020, 01:44:26 PM » |
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Here is a video of how the box of shame is used to overcome the gears puzzle. The box is extra heavy and I have added a mechanism that slows down your movement and rotation, so it will take a moment to get this thing to its destination. Of course the sound failed and the highlight had a bug that I noticed AFTER posting this video on twitter. :D
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« Reply #283 on: August 25, 2020, 02:52:55 PM » |
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Box of shame... shaaaaaaaaame!
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« Reply #284 on: August 26, 2020, 09:56:40 AM » |
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I'm not sure I'm seeing the normal maps or what seems to be ambient occlusion, but it looks very nice either way!
I think that I see it: the floor has a slight "bumpiness" to it that looks to me like the result of a faint normal-map. If that is it, then I think that it works well in this context. Here is a video of how the box of shame is used to overcome the gears puzzle.
Ah, neat! And I like that it has a dedicated animation to its use. ^_^
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« Reply #285 on: August 26, 2020, 10:02:32 AM » |
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Box of shame... shaaaaaaaaame! I have the tendency to insult the player. In "Spaß Taxi" I've initially called the easier (as in "not impossible") game mode "Kiddie mode". I'm not sure I'm seeing the normal maps or what seems to be ambient occlusion, but it looks very nice either way!
I think that I see it: the floor has a slight "bumpiness" to it that looks to me like the result of a faint normal-map. If that is it, then I think that it works well in this context. Yes, that's it. Of course it has two extra layers now: the normal map and the dirt layer. Here is a video of how the box of shame is used to overcome the gears puzzle.
Ah, neat! And I like that it has a dedicated animation to its use. ^_^ Yes, I find all possible ways to waste development time. ^_^
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« Reply #286 on: August 26, 2020, 02:15:14 PM » |
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Missed an opportunity to say you polished a turd
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« Reply #287 on: August 26, 2020, 02:47:32 PM » |
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Missed an opportunity to say you polished a turd I will never tell anybody how long I've stared at it to make it the right amount of shiny and matte to get this juicy look.
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« Reply #288 on: August 28, 2020, 07:37:53 AM » |
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I have added a glow to the "eye triangle". I will keep this item like this for now. Maybe I will revisit it later when I don't like it anymore. The glow is a shader with frontface culling on a sphere around the triangle. In more important news: I've finished two working gear puzzles and am ready to give the tomb into internal testing. I'm (anxiously) looking forward to what the testers will say about it. ^^
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« Reply #289 on: August 28, 2020, 08:05:42 AM » |
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I like that glow! It looks good to me, and almost a little dreamy. ^_^
As to the other news, congratulations on reaching that milestone! I hope that testing goes very well! ^_^
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« Reply #290 on: August 29, 2020, 11:09:29 AM » |
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I like that glow! It looks good to me, and almost a little dreamy. ^_^ As to the other news, congratulations on reaching that milestone! I hope that testing goes very well! ^_^
Thank you! This &%$!%$ glow took way too much time, so it's at least nice to know that it is well received.
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« Reply #291 on: August 29, 2020, 11:10:54 AM » |
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Inserting magic triangles can lead to an irritated eye. After chaning the look of the eye triangle inventory item, I updated the look of the inserted parts in the eye which just had a solid color before. Here is a look at the different states of the eye after inserting your triangles. The eye veins get a bit more "active" with each part.
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« Reply #292 on: August 29, 2020, 11:40:33 AM » |
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The creep factor keeps increasing
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« Reply #293 on: August 30, 2020, 05:29:57 AM » |
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Love the sound effect of blinking. That's very creative. If someone had asked me what sound does a blinking eye make, I would have had hard time imagining something like this. Well done!
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« Reply #294 on: August 31, 2020, 02:06:36 AM » |
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Inserting magic triangles can lead to an irritated eye. ...
Very nice indeed! The triangles remain distinct and clearly-read, while the veins become visibly more pronounced without overwhelming the more-operative elements. It looks good, I feel! ^_^
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« Reply #295 on: August 31, 2020, 02:11:06 AM » |
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The creep factor keeps increasing It's creeping higher. Love the sound effect of blinking. That's very creative. If someone had asked me what sound does a blinking eye make, I would have had hard time imagining something like this. Well done!
I've recorded my own eye. Just kidding. I've extracted those from a longer "squish" sound, because I wanted them to be juicy. Inserting magic triangles can lead to an irritated eye. ...
Very nice indeed! The triangles remain distinct and clearly-read, while the veins become visibly more pronounced without overwhelming the more-operative elements. It looks good, I feel! ^_^ Thank you! That is good to know.
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« Reply #296 on: August 31, 2020, 03:48:26 AM » |
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I've built the tomb test version and tried it on my mini mac. The first (and second) impressions were: it crashed. But after a while I was able to open the ingame menu and reduce the quality and resolution to make stuff appear on screen. It only runs at 20 frames on that old smol graphics hardware, so I'm trying to improve it now. Some shaders stopped working as well on the mac, so I need to look into that as well. I found out that baking the direct lighting (and not just the indirect and shadows) is reducing the drawcalls by almost 50%. But using that mode produced new, terrible dark edges inbetween the modular walls which took me another 2 days to fix. It made it necessary to export the mesh to a different format, create new lightmap UVs and tangents using Unity's importer and increase the lightmap resolution to 300% on those walls. The good news is (if this works): The new lightmaps look nicer than the old ones. Still 45 minutes to go until the lightmaps are finished baking. I'm really tempted to just increase the heat of the oven...
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« Reply #297 on: August 31, 2020, 04:40:21 AM » |
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I've built the tomb test version and tried it on my mini mac. The first (and second) impressions were: it crashed. A good start. Overall, oof, it sounds like it's been a difficult time getting it to work, and work well! But I'm glad that you seem to have made progress, indeed! ^_^
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« Reply #298 on: September 03, 2020, 02:28:11 PM » |
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"Darkness" is the name of the short story this game is roughly based on. Actually, there have been two games before this which were based on that story and funny enough this is the first to actually carry the name of it.
While I really liked the name and the logo, it's just too common. :|
So, some friends and I thought about this for quite some time. I had to find out that pretty much all the weird (but cool) word creations that I came up with were already in use for something (e.g. Sorrowway). But after a while, we were able to think of something pretty unique (and I hope nice sounding) name. I have kept "Darkness" in the subtitle, so it's not completely lost. Ok, without further ado, the new name of the game is... revealed in this video: =P
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« Reply #299 on: September 04, 2020, 12:20:36 AM » |
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Nice! Works well as a teaser trailer too I guess you'll update the logo in your signature after everyone clicked that video?
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