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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: Turrican]
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01/04/15 15:57
01/04/15 15:57
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Kartoffel
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Hey guys, here's a little update on Rigid Force Alpha. Since my last post I rewrote major parts of the game code and also did some redesign of gameplay systems. You can now charge your weapon's special function over three levels, depending on how many energy capsules you have collected (visualized by the horizontal bar in the lower screen center). Additionally, you can charge a combo bar by killing enemies. When maxed out, you can unleash a powerful smart bomb attack which instantly kills smaller enemies and bullets around your ship and inflicts heavy damage to larger opponents. This also triggers a combo mode for highscore players. Just two changes of many, but I don't want to bother you with too many details. Apart from that, both of our composers now finished their tasks which leaves us with a great soundtrack of roughly 40 minutes length. It's a well-balanced mixture of rock, orchestral and electronic elements. And kudos also to Kartoffel, who has built some nice models and also made several improvements to the rendering pipeline. Without that, the shots below would not look half as good.  Speaking of those shots, I also worked on effects and level design/art which can be seen below - these are just some impressions from the Toxic Jungle stage, including the boss enemy, which I'm currently still working on. It's all wip, but don't let that keep you from giving us feedback.      More stuff, news and updates as always via - IndieDB: www.indiedb.com/games/rigid-force-alpha- Twitter: www.twitter.com/com8com1- Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCxoUxO4vIzEZLhvOQSDsxbQ (we should really post a new video soon...) I really need to get shadowmapping working... but the performance is already not very good :S
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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: Ch40zzC0d3r]
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01/05/15 15:24
01/05/15 15:24
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Bavaria, Germany
Kartoffel
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Well there are so many things I'd like to try out
...instancing, a better subsurface-scattering than I'm using in the skin shader that I hacked together, shadowmapping with actual lightrays (lit fog in the air), global illumination using light propagation volumes (LPV) or even a voxel based approach, etc.
But it's not just the engine that causes problems.. it's also my knowledge and hardware limitations.
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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: Kartoffel]
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01/05/15 18:42
01/05/15 18:42
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Kiel (Germany)
Superku
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Very nice, especially the first two screenshots look amazing!
Only the 4th shot really does not resonate with me, the rock structure and texture work looks subpar and so 2004. It looks like the neat mushroom background art and the foreground art changed places accidentally.
The seam to the ground texture looks displeasing, the rock texture is too repetitious because of its defined bright and dark parts, the structure seems to lack some polygons here and there, there are no real details like stuff on the ground, small mushrooms or other stuff growing on the walls and so on. What you could do is try to create a subtle highlight on the borders because the light is coming from the back, then choose a less distinct texture, apply triplanar multitexturing and multiply it with detail and brightness maps or use some sin(inPos.x/256+inPos.y/32) brightness modification or something like that.
Why don't you create a stand-alone WIP thread in this Projects Forum and keep us updated there?
"Falls das Resultat nicht einfach nur dermassen gut aussieht, sollten Sie nochmal von vorn anfangen..." - Manual Check out my new game:  Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends
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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: Superku]
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01/05/15 19:16
01/05/15 19:16
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Netherlands
Reconnoiter
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Yeah now that I zoom in; those rocks on the th 4th screenshot could use some better lightning effects. But maybe that is cause of lack of shadows. Also those trees on the 5th screenshot seem to have low res or too little detail (just like the caterpillar thingy). probably wip textures? But that moth/wasp enemy to the far right is lovely I think .
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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: HeelX]
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01/05/15 23:42
01/05/15 23:42
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Bavaria, Germany
Kartoffel
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Death to all the fancy render monkeys! Dx looks awesome by the way.. but real screenspace reflections shouldn't be a problem, even with A8 
edit: after re-reading your post I noticed you're probably not using the rendering technique I thougt at first..
in that case it's perfectly fine, even recent games do it the way you described
Last edited by Kartoffel; 01/05/15 23:46.
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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: Kartoffel]
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01/05/15 23:49
01/05/15 23:49
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HeelX
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Thanks I flip in the first render pass the figurine along the mirror plane and write the UV of the original pose in a RT... then I render the scene, writing out a mask for the mirror mesh and the approximated refraction vector from the difference between the normal and the mirror plane normal. In a PP combine pass, I lookup for each pixel of the mask the UV of where to lookup SSR.. then I apply an additional fade-out value, which I computed from a fresnel term (from the 1st pass) and the re-projected viewport borders + a fadeout on the distance to the mirror plane. It's not as versatile as SSR, but it looks pixel perfect on polished planes and that is what I want I am happy!
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