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I've got an early preview of what's been happening with development, I've rewritten the game from scratch to better optimize it and make it more convenient to add/change features. There's still several features missing that I will be adding back in over the next few days but before then, here's the preview.
A few notes:
- Keyboard only
- Only one graphics preset on the Unity launcher
- No pausing or settings menu in-game
- Spectre Class only
- Checkpoints enabled
I somehow came across this lighting test on Unity, from some University of Utah students...
https://origamers.files.wordpress.co.../lighttest.png
The lighting is perfectly natural, shadows were not too soft, boy wonder how they can pull this off. :clap
Thought graphics don't have to be this nice, BnG's atmosphere must be perfect, or else it just feela like a generic Unity game.
It looks like they're interpolating the normals between the vertices and applying their own shadow maps, or the shadows are baked into a lightmap. Don't take my word on that though, I'm no expert in the field of shaders.
In layman's terms, they're smoothing the light on those objects and using their own custom shadows.
I'm learning 3D as I go and hopefully BallisticNG's end result should look better then your average generic Unity game. It's not all about the shaders though, the artist behind the assets makes up a considerable amount of the quality of the visuals too.
Here's a real-time orbiting render of the G-Tek Gen2 Ship, unlike any other ship model I've made in the past this one is optimized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjqcdGRztT0
Well it tokk me way too long to get this out but here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA98-A3C5Tg
These are two track designs as well as the full Cold Comfort remix. I named the tracks "Harpstone" and Aciknovae" though if you want you can give them your own names.
I like those, nice job! I think the names are already pretty good, I'll get to making them later on today :)
Since you've placed what can be the basic geometry that will make modeling the environment easier too.
Some news on development:
Firstly check out this Trello board I started recently, it's pretty vague at the minute but I'll add more details as time goes on. For me I can use it to make sure I'm keeping on track, for everyone else you can check out how far through development I am and what I am currently working on. (Green means complete, yellow means in progress and red means pending).
As it says on the board the game now has savable times, I am currently working on ghosts. The times are stored in your documents folder as a .sav file (BallisticNG/Windows user account name/Times/TrackName.sav). If you beat your best time on time-trial then your time will be saved, it will automatically be loaded and displayed again the next time-trial race as expected. When ghosts are finished, you will be able to share your ghosts for others to use, in the future I want to get some server space so data like ghosts can be uploaded and shared in-game.
Your name in the game will automatically be picked up from your Windows user account name (minus -PC), however you will be able to change it in the options menu.
Isn't that a little, eh, Borderlandsish? Might want to make sure that name isn't copyrighted. I would hate for you to get moonshotted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meg.A.Byte
Well, it's surprise for me and I'm little dissapointed right now. I've never played Borderlands and I know nothing about it so it's pure coincidence. But after all Ballistic NG is just fan project and as Snake stated it probably never will go wide public.Quote:
Originally Posted by mannjon
Btw the name "Hyperion" is name of greek titan from ancient mythology, so it's never going to be copyrighted (probably).
Could you post a video with the new physics, I have been able to play it yet. This fall I should get a chance to dig in with a decent computer.
Yeah Hyperion wouldn't be copyrighted by Gearbox, the use of the name in relation to the corporation inside of Borderlands more then likely is though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUQqEgbMs9kQuote:
Originally Posted by JABBERJAW