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francis_baud
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From this week's update: http://camelotunchained.com/v3/screenshots-for-everybody/
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Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I agree however that today it's easy to just purchase a few assets from Unity or Unreal store and get a "decent" landscape in no time, just nothing comparable to what we get with talented artists working on the biomes for months.
Water is in rudimentary form, and will be polished a lot, as MJ explained the other day on Massively OP:
"As to the water texture, yep, it was a bit of quick work. Like everything else with the game, it's still a work-in-progress. The good news is that all we need to do is take a couple of weeks and write a really good water shader and/or use bits of WaveWorks as RealmHerald mentions.
As always, it's a process, and if you have seen our screen shots from Pre-Alpha -> Alpha -> Current, you can see the dramatic improvement in them."
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
If the screenshots looked like crap would you have said so?
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
CSE has said that it shouldn't take too long before they start streaming some gameplay, so I'll stay tuned.
"This is all very much a work in progress, and I must preface that while it seems we are going for realism, we certainly plan to add more fantasy elements. Right now a more realistic world helps us tune all these lighting changes as we can gauge our work against what “feels” right, which is sometimes a hard thing to figure out. Trust us, we have a ton of knobs to tune now, so anyone jumping in will certainly find some great shots, and some not so great ones. Bear with us. Like we told you, it’s going to keep getting better."
Philosophy of MMO Game Design
I have to agree with others, natural landscapes are pretty easy to make with a random landscape generator.
But I am willing to wait as Mark Jacobs said that at this stage graphics were at the bottom of the list, as they were focusing on the engine and implementing features.
Unlike typical Kickstarter type of "let's put together couple fancy screenshots and some epic story", this is completely reversed - the essence i.e. the monstrous engine (I better not start on counting all it's capable of...) developed for 3+ years which is slowly getting some makeup, and even so it's still alpha makeup.
On the contrary, if you want you can find timelapse videos on YouTube, in which guys make awesome looking landscape in UE/Unity, from scratch i.e. from it's elementary assets, virtually in couple hours.
Of course, combat is not guaranteed to be good - it can still easily fail or turn out to be boring. I'm just pointing out the difference between this and just another Unreal/Unity shoestring budget Kickstarter project.
Just to add, first two images are part of five (!) Jon made in less than eight hours, it illustrates rather his speed in 3D modeling than some highly elaborate epic stuff. These are meant to be eventually modified/textured and then randomly scattered around the landscape, as monuments / traces of unknown past, and not more than that.
That is, I guess @ste2000 had something bigger in mind, and the game is still not in that phase. Artists are just starting to make small pieces of future epic scenery - say, last three statues will be part of PoP (place of power) shown in the next-to-last concept.
Sometimes the way an Art Style looks on paper can be quite different from the way they actually look in game.
But as I said I want to see actual places in game to see how they look like and how well they fit with the environment.
I am not criticizing by the way, I said that I was aware that graphics were not at the top of the priority list, and I was willing to wait before making a judgement on it.