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North Midmaer Way - Sneak Peek!

Discussion in 'Developer Work and Blog posts' started by Vas Corp Por, Sep 28, 2017.

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  1. Vas Corp Por

    Vas Corp Por Dev Emeritus Dev Emeritus

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    Here's some early screenshots of our progress on North Midmaer Way, hope you enjoy them!

    North Midmaer Way is a Tier 2 Advneture Zone, set in a heavily wooded area.

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    Thanks for following our progress! More soon!
     
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    What wonderful Forrest you did there. It's beatiful to run and play there...

    ups what are this fragile white gluey threads...

    Aaargh ... HELP .... Spiders..... GIANT spiders *run's for her life*
     
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    A very nice forest! It would be nice if there are special encounters that are not directly hostile. Something like the wild hunt, special game (white stag?) or fairy circles.
    I like the new maps with many tress, however they are hard to navigate with a zoomed out "top view" perspective.
     
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    My thoughts exactly!!! The scene looks great.
     
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    Looks nice and lush like the Arabella scene.
     
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    Wow! Really sweet.
     
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    Some more preview shots:

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    Thanks for following our progress!!
     
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    Is South Midmaer Way going to get a refresh as well? I ask because it might be neat to get a quest line that links the two areas and of course that would be something to think about while designing.
     
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    Excellent work! The vegetation is looking amazingly lush... what kind of FPS are you getting here? Can we expect that level of vegetation by the time the map gets into the game?


    EDIT: Man! In the fourth screenshot, those flowers are huuuuuuge lol
     
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    The blue flowers? I did scale them back some since that screenshot.

    Getting good framerate in beautiful, most of the densest foliage is fakery done with sprite grass attached to the terrain, and heavy use of our tree walls to fake dense, impenetrable forest
     
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    I was actually referring to the yellow/red ones, a little bit further down the path than the character. (they are further away, yet larger than the character's head).

    But, im not criticizing :) who says that there aren't huge flowers in novia? :p
     
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    we do have tall sunflowers now. they are lovely. ;) Have you seen them? I wasn't sure that was the flowers you were talking about ;)
     
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    A nice old growth forest. Looks great! Thanks for sharing!
     
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    I did have to scale back the distance at which ground plants draw, but not the density! Only view I think this would effect is the 1st shot in the 2nd post (green grass fades in as you go into that meadow) Other than that, framerate's good, spawning's done and it's about to get some 'advanced spawning' (Keith and or Dan come in and add special spawns and quests etc.)
     
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    It looks breathtaking! Keep up the good work! :)
     
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    Oh, the Reapers Paradise !
     
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