Upcoming christmas event

Website · Post by **yosuhara** » 21 Nov 2006, 12:54

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...

BadMrBox · Post by **BadMrBox** » 21 Nov 2006, 19:36

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.

Post by **Saphy** » 21 Nov 2006, 21:56

Nice. But there is one problem, snowflake has six points, not eight, like this:

Website · Post by **yosuhara** » 21 Nov 2006, 22:42

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?

Post by **Modanung** » 21 Nov 2006, 23:26

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.

Website · Post by **yosuhara** » 22 Nov 2006, 01:07

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