NanoBlobs 0.3, dev diary

Aun · Post by **Aun** » 05 Mar 2006, 17:41

Argh wrote: In other news... here's the unit. The treads look kewl.

Video!

VIDEO!

VIDEO!!!

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 05 Mar 2006, 18:13

Hmm.

Ok... here ya go

AF · Post by AF » 05 Mar 2006, 18:26

hmm, I dont like that green on the latest unit either......... And the hat makes it look a little more harmless....

Lord JoNil · Post by **Lord JoNil** » 05 Mar 2006, 18:28

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 05 Mar 2006, 18:34

the hat makes it look a little more harmless....

As opposed to the GIGANTIC flamethrower of DOOM?

I was going for the "psychotic robot meets Officer Friendly" look

TBPH, I'm a little less than totally thrilled by the skin, myself, but I've gotta go to work in two hours and I haven't slept all night, so I'm going to take a brief nap instead of fussing with it right now.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 06 Mar 2006, 15:45

Meet the AutoFac. It's totally harmless- just a factory! Trust us

It only looks like some mutant Death Star.

This has to one of the coolest screens I've captured yet. The only Photoshop was the text and border.

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 06 Mar 2006, 16:25

Love the texture, but I found the spheres are too low poli.
And ergh, if this is in spring, it ├â┬¼s raytraced isn't it?

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 06 Mar 2006, 16:47

I guess I'm just easily excitable

The glowmaps and the teamcolor + reflectivity for that interesting metallic look on the outer spheres is what made me excited.

That's not the final map on this- I have a further set of revisions to make the center sphere much more interesting and make the outer ones look more like functional things, but I haven't gotten there yet.

At any rate, we're almost touching noses with the thing, so it's to be expected it's going to look like what it is- a low-poly object, all dolled up to look more sophisticated than it really is. When you zoom out, it's really hard to tell.

And last but not least... I wouldn't really classify the engine as a raytracer, no. While it does light things from the point source of the sun, the lighting actually has a number of issues that become fairly obvious if you do tests with it. Compared to a raytracer like POV-Ray... no, it's not even close, in terms of accuracy. However, that doesn't stop us from making things of surpassing beauty. I just felt that this was an atmospheric shot, so I decided to share- I'm not going to argue the fine points, because I really don't care anyhow- I just like making kewl art

AF · Post by AF » 06 Mar 2006, 19:48

hmm is it me or have you already posted a pic similair to that before? It seems very familiar, btu I must agree I dont like the facetted look when it's obviously supposed to be smooth. Otherwise I love ti and I wish the dark sinister technological look it has was put into the textures of the other units

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 06 Mar 2006, 22:52

In 0.3, can you make Knights 'splode a bit less violently? 1 rook can kill 50 og them just due to the massive chain reaction :/

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 06 Mar 2006, 23:00

it's the risk you take Drone_Fragger, the trick is to throw your knights into the fray at just the right moment in a battle

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 06 Mar 2006, 23:03

Fair enough.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 07 Mar 2006, 02:15

That particular wrinkle's fixed, actually, along with a lot of other little things.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 12 Mar 2006, 12:15

Getting closer... battling NTAI on NanoArena

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 12 Mar 2006, 13:59

This looks so Cool!!

genblood · Post by **genblood** » 12 Mar 2006, 14:42

I SECOND that ...

The screenies look very nice ....

Looking forward to the day it's released ...

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 12 Mar 2006, 15:36

Amazing. :O

Andreask · Post by **Andreask** » 12 Mar 2006, 15:43

Awesome ! I hope you will release a AA/XTA compatibel version of this map also.

AF · Post by AF » 12 Mar 2006, 17:47

! avatar thief!!!!

Anyways I have an updated version of NTAI with attacking and a fix that should make those factories get placed better. See fileunvierse latest files in the next 40 mintues.

I'd also advise anyone making buidltrees for XTA/AA to get that but it's not for public consumption

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 12 Mar 2006, 17:58

And who was it who said that The archers would look like craop again?

Spring RTS Engine

NanoBlobs 0.3, dev diary