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« Reply #160 on: November 06, 2014, 04:08:44 PM » |
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I've spent the day messing w space stations and while the sprite lighting system worked well for ships, especially when tilting ships banking, stations were looking/feeling a bit flat. Not quite peper-mario flat, but certainly not what I wanted. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I could do... options include ditching stations, making them in 3d (worry of style shift and costs), or..... stacking layers of the station in the z which I tried first. Between getting some parrallax scrolling effect, and the heightmap/lighting system, I think I like it. Example -- note not all stations will have designs that clone/stack and we will have design sections for overlay if we are going w this method. See what you think. note the end of the clip is toying w z axis tilting. I could see concentric circle rotation for some station parts (think penny wobble on table).  |
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« Reply #161 on: November 08, 2014, 10:07:38 AM » |
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I was procrastinating on getting to the dialogue system UI (dreading UI work heh) so I added circular storms for procedural gas giants:
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« Reply #162 on: November 08, 2014, 04:59:35 PM » |
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I sure procrastinate on UI stuff, but I finally started making the dialogue ui for stardiver. Note the animation is placeholder (stiff and repetitive test animation. idle/chat/irritated/ec are planned) and the ui still needs a little tweaking, but its coming along: gfycat for this one (110mb gif) http://gfycat.com/UnequaledRemarkableIbex |
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« Reply #163 on: November 09, 2014, 01:38:18 AM » |
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I'd avoid the font resizing. Other than that it looks great!
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« Reply #164 on: November 09, 2014, 01:13:03 PM » |
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I'd avoid the font resizing. Other than that it looks great!
I do need to sort that out, I wasn't a fan either. It is something that the ui control we are using does for you. We may need to have a max length and just split into two dialogues when it's longer. |
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« Reply #165 on: November 09, 2014, 09:32:42 PM » |
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Started work on the planet lander / rover. Just the drop sequence so far. UI isn't in yet, but there will be an altitude indication on the side and you use thrusters to slow decent. Depending on planet gravity it will be easy/hard to have a soft landing. For those who are not sure where I'm going with this, had my favorite planet roving. It will be similar... but a mix of it and some other ideas I'm kicking around. Opinions? (note: camera shake didn't gif well )  |
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« Reply #166 on: November 10, 2014, 12:11:35 AM » |
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Looks nice! Your link was broken though: If you want some honest to goodness science inspiration, here are two movies based on the data from the Huygens Probe's descent on Titan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbmcoL3OqPk |
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« Reply #167 on: November 10, 2014, 08:39:21 PM » |
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Looks nice! Your link was broken though: If you want some honest to goodness science inspiration, here are two movies based on the data from the Huygens Probe's descent on Titan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbmcoL3OqPkI fixed the link thx. I love ESA / nasa videos  inspiration indeed! |
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« Reply #168 on: November 11, 2014, 09:29:32 PM » |
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Long day getting planet landing more polished. I'm pretty happy with how it is feeling w the drop ship movement, gravity, thrust, atmosphere, etc. Too many tweaks to list. I forgot to hookup the screen shaking when going fast enough through atmosphere for the heatfx. I had it disable for debugging something. oh well, not going to reshoot the vid.. it's late Orbit to surface:  Surface to orbit:  |
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« Reply #169 on: November 12, 2014, 02:06:46 AM » |
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Aw yeah!
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« Reply #170 on: November 14, 2014, 08:57:58 AM » |
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In an effort to make what looks good, look better, I worked out our planet shaders yesterday. We now have atmospheric scattering and a much better edge glow than before. I wasn't using it before because I couldn't sort out how to get color, specular color, and shininess added to the shader which was really needed for the look/feel we were after. I finally figured it out and pretty happy w the results. Also, we are playing around with some depth of field fx that I'm digging. new / old shader:  Depth of field and new shaders: Opinions?  youtube youtube |
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« Reply #171 on: November 14, 2014, 09:39:06 AM » |
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DOF looks good to me!
Can I suggest something else to try, just as a point of comparison? Right now the camera moves to zoom in. Have you also tried changing it's FOV? In other words, proper zooming like a tele-lens without the camera moving? It may be less jarring, but it could also be more boring.
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« Reply #172 on: November 14, 2014, 09:41:35 AM » |
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DOF looks good to me!
Can I suggest something else to try, just as a point of comparison? Right now the camera moves to zoom in. Have you also tried changing it's FOV? In other words, proper zooming like a tele-lens without the camera moving? It may be less jarring, but it could also be more boring.
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« Reply #173 on: November 14, 2014, 11:29:09 AM » |
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Yes vote for the FOV from me as well and I think the new planet shader is even better even though the one before was really good as well.
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« Reply #174 on: November 14, 2014, 11:33:38 AM » |
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Yes vote for the FOV from me as well and I think the new planet shader is even better even though the one before was really good as well.
I'm trying the fov now. It is VERY dramatic for planet orbital battles. I'll post something in a while after I get some time tweaking it (I think it's a bit over the top atm). I'll be using both planet shading types in the game. Not all worlds will have atmospheres. Here is an example of w and w/o the new shader. Both very usable -- just nice to have the ability to really tell visually if a planet has an atmosphere or not. A litting info on what the new shader is doing... In a practical,game terms, It enhances the edge of a planet to look like an atmosphere. There are two components that are useful in a space game. First is a shader that adds a gradient color to the lit edge of the planet. The other is a outer gradient/glow beyond the edge of the planet. Here is a pic with the effect turned way up:  same planet it turned off:  |
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« Reply #175 on: November 14, 2014, 11:55:44 AM » |
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Ok.... hmmm I think I like it, but maybe too dramatic? FOV Zoom per request:  |
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« Reply #176 on: November 14, 2014, 12:52:15 PM » |
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Hah, I actually meant the DOF (I should probably get some rest soon)...but that FOV change could be used for some situations even though it might be a bit too dramatic for constant use.
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« Reply #178 on: November 19, 2014, 04:05:20 PM » |
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Yeah..... I'll pass on a dollyzoom -- BlpBlp gets animation. Now to get the new dialogue text from the writer, some voice-over work and per-race music done.  |
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« Reply #179 on: November 19, 2014, 04:10:31 PM » |
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Blpblp video w/ some of the dialogue txt from our writer:
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