Originally posted by Manatee
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Veerrry nice looking enviroment! I like the lightning and vibrant colours, and the fact that not everything is overly metallic or glossy.
Transitions seem working at least in the video. Some of the camera movements perhaps stop a bit abrubtly to my tastes- adding a slowing down key as a brake would make them a bit smoother. Then
again I worked years in cutscenes so I am overly picky for those :P. Is the main character on the screen all the time btw or is it like first person? If the character is visible all the time, maybe the camera movement animations might
get a bit "noisy" after a while and simple fixed/semi fixed cameras with slight pans and camera interest centered at the character could work better. Thats something you have to test with the character moving though, if there will be that .
Biggest question probably though is, how does player realize what area he can zoom into, what objects examine etc? The room is very nice looking but also very dense, so its hard to figure what are important objects and what are not.
Of course this is something that clears up when playing, but if there is not any hint such as popups/edge lines/tooltips, there is a chance it might become just randomly clicking around until something happens? Keep up nice work!
Transitions seem working at least in the video. Some of the camera movements perhaps stop a bit abrubtly to my tastes- adding a slowing down key as a brake would make them a bit smoother. Then
again I worked years in cutscenes so I am overly picky for those :P. Is the main character on the screen all the time btw or is it like first person? If the character is visible all the time, maybe the camera movement animations might
get a bit "noisy" after a while and simple fixed/semi fixed cameras with slight pans and camera interest centered at the character could work better. Thats something you have to test with the character moving though, if there will be that .
Biggest question probably though is, how does player realize what area he can zoom into, what objects examine etc? The room is very nice looking but also very dense, so its hard to figure what are important objects and what are not.
Of course this is something that clears up when playing, but if there is not any hint such as popups/edge lines/tooltips, there is a chance it might become just randomly clicking around until something happens? Keep up nice work!
thx for the very kind words ! they really lift my spirit ;-)
- transistions should be more smooth in compiled and optimized game. keep in mind this is live recorded with nvidea shadowplay in 4k with 15-20 fps now.
the transitions should have already a little easing at the start and end. maybe i should make it more pronounced.
- the main character would be on screen most of the time. but e.g. going up the ladder will change to only first person mode. so we dont have to create the animation for it.
- i know what you mean that the camera movement might get annoying when used to often. this will have to proof itself when we are further on the prototype.
- yeah i know the room is very dense, i always seem to mess them up with all these stuff, but i hope to get it working that not all objects on the screen will have a hotspot, so the player should have enough options to get immersed in the environment without getting lost into it.
hope this makes sense at all ;-)
@ SchnitzelDude:
thx for your kind words, too. We are neighbours somehow. i live in münster ;-)
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