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[Thaumaturge]

That is a nice chapter-introduction indeed, both visually and musically. I like it! And a good idea to use your mirror-writing shader to achieve it, I do think. ^_^

[RealScaniX]

That is a nice chapter-introduction indeed, both visually and musically. I like it! And a good idea to use your mirror-writing shader to achieve it, I do think. ^_^

Thank you. I still like it after a day as well. That is usually a good sign.

[RealScaniX]

I've added the grill to the kitchen. It really made me hungry for some grilled goodies like sausages.
Mmh... I can almost smell the smoke!
Waaaaaait a minute...
 
I've added a new shader function "EyeCorner". I will do some stuff that you can only see out of the corner of your eye.
Here it is use to blend the coal material between the normal and the glowing version and also to fade out the smoke particles.
 

[essencescape]

You made voxel look atmospheric! Nice!
Curious about the game premise, following to stay posted.

Would love to see some post processing camera fxs with your voxel look.

It's a good combination of genre and art style. Best of luck!

[RealScaniX]

You made voxel look atmospheric! Nice!
Curious about the game premise, following to stay posted.

Would love to see some post processing camera fxs with your voxel look.

It's a good combination of genre and art style. Best of luck!

Thank you very much!
 
Doing a post processing / shader breakdown video is a nice idea. I think I might do that soon.
 

[Thaumaturge]

I love the idea of things that the player can only see out of the corner of their eye! That should be nicely spooky indeed! :D

(I once thought to do a similar thing with ghosts in a project that I had in mind, now set aside.)

[RealScaniX]

I love the idea of things that the player can only see out of the corner of their eye! That should be nicely spooky indeed! :D

(I once thought to do a similar thing with ghosts in a project that I had in mind, now set aside.)

Yes, this has been on the list for a while. I first wanted to use it on something in the cellar. There will be other stuff that you can only see from the corner of your eye as well. I'm putting all those things into shader functions now, so I can reuse them more easily to build new shaders and effects and combine them.

[RealScaniX]

Here are the post processing effects that I apply to get the current look. I'm still playing around with this regularly. I've just tinkered with the DOF again and also with the ambient occlusion that got reduced a bit (also in resolution to gain some performance).
 
I'm adding more vibrant colors, depth of field & ambient occlusion.
 
The Darkness shader itself has a large impact as well, though. It is used in the material of the objects.
 

[Thaumaturge]

It's neat to see how all of those shaders layer to produce the final image. ^_^

If I may ask, I'm curious: why are there two layers of ambient occlusion?

[RealScaniX]

It's neat to see how all of those shaders layer to produce the final image. ^_^

If I may ask, I'm curious: why are there two layers of ambient occlusion?

That's something I have asked myself as well. They are from different products, one is from the standard unity post process stack and the other from Amplify Creates. I played around with them a while ago and came to the conclusion that they create different effects and I need both of them.
As always: Post processing is a thing that I change around a bit at least once a month or so. The next version might be different.

[Thaumaturge]

Ah, fair enough, on both counts! Thank you for the explanation. ^_^

[RealScaniX]

Here is a nice comparison between the old look from the public demo and the look of the current version.
Some of the change in shading comes from the smoothing I'm sometimes applying to the normals of voxel objects to make them less flat shaded.
 

[RealScaniX]

Most of the time, your LightBall is your only light source in the game.
You won't really see it very often, but it's very important and I wanted to redesign it a bit.
 
I'm not finished, but this is the current look with the new shader.




 
Otherwise I was busy building the last objects for the kitchen and that room is pretty close to being complete. I also did lots of cleanup and optimizations.
 
I've also added more functionality to the text files containing the messages for examine or combine responses. I can now add more variation to the response with randomly selected parts and can add more precise responses to combine actions.
E.g. I can have a standard response for using a hammer with something, using something with the cat and also using... the hammer with the cat.
 

[Thaumaturge]

Ooh, that light-ball is really lovely; I particularly like the sense of depth to it. Very nicely done! ^_^

[RealScaniX]

Thank you! It was just an intermediate state to be able to post it for #screenshotsaturday. ^^
 
It looks a bit different already. I need to redesign the whole inventory system before I can show it in the scene that I imagined, though.

[RealScaniX]

Inventory V2:
 
1) The new grid layout has dynamic columns and rows for different resolutions and multiple pages for more items.

2) Now you can combine items in the inventory.

3) The new pivot and bounds calculation improves automatic scaling and positioning.

The following video shows the old and the new system.
 

[Thaumaturge]

That looks pretty good, indeed. ^_^

Also, from certain descriptions I take the implication that it's perfectly normal and unremarkable in this setting for things to be surrounded by an eldritch purple aura.

[Suttebun]

  "That is my light ball." is like.. that over there is my light ball.

"This is my light ball." sounds like it's in your posession.

But also.. "that is my light ball" sounds like your speaking to yourself in your head.. which really fits your game.

  

[RealScaniX]

That looks pretty good, indeed. ^_^

Also, from certain descriptions I take the implication that it's perfectly normal and unremarkable in this setting for things to be surrounded by an eldritch purple aura.

Thanks! It totally is.
That "aura" is actually an effect to increase the contrast as you wouldn't be able to see the black nails very good without it.
 

"That is my light ball." is like.. that over there is my light ball.

"This is my light ball." sounds like it's in your posession.

But also.. "that is my light ball" sounds like your speaking to yourself in your head.. which really fits your game.

   

I bet there is a lot to proof read. English is a foreign language after all, so lots of it doesn't come naturally.
The description stays the same for items, no matter if they are still standing on a shelf or have moved into your posession in the meantime. If that proves to be a problem, I can still add (another) mechanism to the description texts.

[JobLeonard]

"that is my light ball"

"there are many like it but this one is mine"