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New Terrain System – Continued

Fishypants — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:47:02 +0000

So the initial implementation of the terrain triplanar shader had a few quirky issues with it. Spent some time optimizing the code and cleaned it up, now the normal maps work correctly on the terrain. Found ways to expose hidden lightmapping settings in Beast, so now the lightmaps do not blow out. Also tweaked the player skin shader so it doesn’t blow out as well. All in all things are feeling more coherent and solid, which always makes me happy

New Terrain System

Fishypants — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:38:35 +0000

We’ve been working hard on our new terrain system. Also been working on the terrain shader, which is a TriPlanar shader that blends between 3 textures + 3 normal maps. Here are some early work in progress screenshots.

Hair Textures

Pastywhite — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:02:22 +0000

So this isn’t 100% there but this is what I’ve got so far on one of the new hairstyles. This is the same haircut textured in two different ways. Still not quite sure which one we’ll use for the game or maybe we’ll just end up using both.

More Hairstyles

Fishypants — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:23:29 +0000

Just wanted to post a quick update about all the new hair styles we are working on. Some previews of them in game while PastyWhite is texturing them:

Hair, Equippable Armor, and More!

Fishypants — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:10:56 +0000

Not too many updates lately because we have been super busy cramming new features into the game. We now have hair with accurate transparency, no more alpha clipped garbage. Worked on the item code and streamlined it, made it so you can equip armor and clothing, also changed the hair shaders to have a color chooser for hair color, instead of a texture map, allowing the player to pick any color they want and using only the texture map for alpha information and color variation. More to come, so stay tuned!