Opinion from community...
SirKewberth
EdenForum Administrator, Forum Moderator, Game Developer
in General Chat
So I have an idea to maybe do something but I'm not sure.
My idea is to go over some of the older items and create improved versions of them and just patch them as we update the game. When the game first came out the camera was locked to an isometric view. And many of the items were designed to never be viewed from the sides at all and so they don't look good in arbitrary 3d (from the side, etc..)
The idea would be to take some items, especially those that don't look good from certain angles and just make improved versions of them and patch them into the game as we update.
So on the surface it seems like an easy decision.. why not make the game look nicer?
My hesitation is that despite them looking wonky, maybe people have grown attached to the way things look now warts and all? I would try to make them look the same, but they wouldn't be identical, so is that a problem?
I know some people will say.. just make new versions and keep the old, but this isn't a good solution because the game is already pushing the limits of texture space used for the devices we support so just adding a ton of new items arbitrarily isn't really a good way to go.
So what do you guys think of this?
My idea is to go over some of the older items and create improved versions of them and just patch them as we update the game. When the game first came out the camera was locked to an isometric view. And many of the items were designed to never be viewed from the sides at all and so they don't look good in arbitrary 3d (from the side, etc..)
The idea would be to take some items, especially those that don't look good from certain angles and just make improved versions of them and patch them into the game as we update.
So on the surface it seems like an easy decision.. why not make the game look nicer?
My hesitation is that despite them looking wonky, maybe people have grown attached to the way things look now warts and all? I would try to make them look the same, but they wouldn't be identical, so is that a problem?
I know some people will say.. just make new versions and keep the old, but this isn't a good solution because the game is already pushing the limits of texture space used for the devices we support so just adding a ton of new items arbitrarily isn't really a good way to go.
So what do you guys think of this?
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Also, could we perhaps see an example of the new models so we have an idea of what would be replacing them?
what other blocks/wearables or whatnot would need to be changed?
From an artist's perspective I definitely think this decision would be a huge improvement.
Edit: Had the idea to be able to switch from new graphics and old graphics in the menu settings. This way we can have both old and new that can be switched between.
Tho, hoping the items won’t be radically changed since the builds would become absolutely different. But an improved version of an item could never be bad.
(Just a few items I could think of with duplicate or extra unnecessary models or textures.)