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Upcoming christmas event
Posted: 21 Nov 2006, 12:54
by yosuhara
ok, so christmas are comin' and recently i "drew" something that can be used as a snow storm overlay effect...
simple snow flakes, i replaced sandstorm effect with this one and it came out pretty good i think...
Posted: 21 Nov 2006, 19:36
by BadMrBox
Testing it right now and yeah I would mind to see these snowflakes ingame for christmas. Would suit the snowy parts of TMW anyday too, I think.
Posted: 21 Nov 2006, 21:56
by Saphy
Nice. But there is one problem, snowflake has six points, not eight, like this:
Posted: 21 Nov 2006, 22:42
by yosuhara
Saphy wrote:Nice. But there is one problem, snowflake has six points, not eight, like this:
Aaaahh, we don't play on exact reality, do we?
Posted: 21 Nov 2006, 23:26
by Modanung
Here are some examples of hexagonal snowflakes:
Snowflake imagry
Why not just deformed spheres? I think that works better. First of all heavy with snowfall snowflakes consist of multiple small flakes that are clustered... right? Second, camera-aligned hexagons are pretty flat 'n dull. Sphere-like flakes can be shaded.
Posted: 22 Nov 2006, 01:07
by yosuhara
Modanung wrote:Here are some examples of hexagonal snowflakes:
Snowflake imagry
Why not just deformed spheres? I think that works better. First of all heavy with snowfall snowflakes consist of multiple small flakes that are clustered... right? Second, camera-aligned hexagons are pretty flat 'n dull. Sphere-like flakes can be shaded.
yep, i didn't think about it that way
