The next step is adding something to achieve a radiosity effect for realistic shading. I call it a Dynamic Ambient Map. This simulates outdoor light coming through windows and destroyed walls.
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The main reason I’m going for procedural content is speed of asset creation. An experienced artist would paint a map for L-D in 2-3 days + additional hours for making modifications. With the current map system it takes 10 minutes. As a single developer I simply can’t afford time or money (unless you give me your money) and I can make it look just as good.
Procedural tile generating preview
Sophistication comes from mastering basics
Don’t ask me how this is done.
I’m really excited about the new Soldat 1.5.1 beta that will be out soon. Soldat is finally gonna be “professional” with a lot of new cool features. It’s a version that I always intended to create but never had the time to actually do. Wait for it.
The problem with generating tiles from textures is that it looks like Half-Life 1 (flat). What I need to do is figure out what the artist does in a paint program, find out the physics behind it and transform that into a computer algorithm. By looking at the walls in my room I figured that what I need is Ambient Occlusion (http://ping.fm/3wLNV) that will affect the lighting. I’ll present the results soon.
I’m trying out several different graphic styles for Link-Dead. You can look at them.
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