Defining Awesome

As you know Link-Dead is a game set in a not so far future. There’s a war going on for many years. Hardly anything is left. Cities are just rubble and dust.

The Dust Processor is something I invented to achieve a certain look and feel I want for Link-Dead. The best known present imagery for projecting that is the 9/11 WTC look.

This is what I’m aiming for.

DP doesn’t use any particles. It is basically a cellular automaton used for simulating environmental effects with my custom designed texture blenders. A glimpse of it are the fog effects seen on previous videos. I’ll be posting a video of the DP running on the weekend.

I invented sth I called the Dust Processor. It’s a way to simulate smoke, dust & other environmental effects without using particles.

As promised a video of the lights and fog effects. Starts with zoom-in with a blur shader for smoothing.

Got my old light and fog code working. Still got to tweak it and I’ll post some screens or film.

I need to leave bot paths now for more contemplation. I’m changing focus to integrating the old effects for maps – lighting and fog.

Gameplay: What’s the difference between brutally killing a dude in-game and pressing X button to play a death animation?

I’m adding every now and then new development images and scans on the LD Facebook & ModDB

A classic AI bot dilemma

I encountered many problems with the bot paths. I need to reconsider this approach.

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