[ July Update] Our Ghosts of War
Our Ghosts of War is a survival genre set in World War 2.
The game takes place in Nazi occupied Normandy.
July 2018 Environment Progress
The game takes place in Nazi occupied Normandy.
July 2018 Environment Progress
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@Maxdev I'm not sure how you plan to use DEM for a territory located in France. Unfortunately, there's no good DEM for Europe and the only stuff available is limited to 3 arc/second (~90m), except for some areas in the Alps and some part of Scandinavia if memory serves. That's pretty damn coarse... If you find a better source let me know, as someone interested in doing terrain from DEM I'd like to try something different than USA for a change...
@Mant1k0re, I use this link to get the DEM data. It serves as a base and then it's Mudbox time to work on the details. Given the DEMs come out very low res.
@JordanN, I didn't mention I'm using any 8K texture maps. If you mean the 8K landscape, it works pretty well.
Only crit is maybe a little more variation in the hedgehogs, they are on sand so would expect some to be dug in a little more. Like this:
But yeah, seriously impressive, subbed
Hey everybody, I'm Jack and I'm one of the other environment artists/modelers working on "Our Ghosts of War". This is the first of the fourteen bunkers on Omaha Beach. I'm adding a modified Panzer IV turret to the top of the bunker.
What painting tool are you using, Substance?
What is the Spec of the PC you are using?
Sorry about all the questions, I am rather intrigued.
@Others, Thank you.
To level with you, we've got nothing to announce about release platforms right now. We're developing "Our Ghosts of War" in Unreal so we can export to PC, PS4, and the Xbox One. The Nintendo NX should be compatible with Unreal as well. We're still weighing all our options. It's just too early to say anything.
Releasing "Our Ghosts of War" on the Nintendo NX presents an especially intriguing possibility as a kind of counter-programming to Nintendo's regular content. Especially if we can manage to get the game ready by system launch. But releasing on the NX will pretty much mean making the game exclusive to Nintendo's platform, and loudly, LOUDLY declaring it as such, because multiplatform games do not move units on their systems. We'll see.
I use Substance.
My rig is i7-4790k. GTX 970. 8GB ram.
Redid the terrain from scratch. It's now 4x bigger than DayZ.
:thumbup:
By chance, when you mean Adventure Game, do you mean something like Telltales Adventure Games?
Model by: Yulu Xue
Textures by: Me
Model by: Yulu Xue
Textures by: Me
Just kidding. I hope we can even just get it finished. Still a long road ahead.
We've done tons of coding and now I'm back at the art side to balance the progress.
I'm trying to achieve good relation between sky and grass brightness. Would love to have your feedback on this.
SPENCER_HOLMES, That approach to wet sand beach wasn't really ideal, it was procedural and thus not 100% in control so I've taken it out and will take a new approach to it later. Will definitely do a breakdown this time.
DIGITALAIR, How is it now?
Keep up the good work!
SUBTLE 1RONY, Will have this in mind when doing level design. Thanks!
ARMAGON, I am using an HDRi for sky. Didn't capture it myself.
I like how it pretty much covers the entire ground instead of just being a few patches over a tiled ground texture.
I think the ww2 setting actually lends itself to a survival game quite well - one of the day-z clones I played a LOT of made it quite clear that one of the most important gameplay factors was scale of gear. It wasn't very fun to go up against groups fully kitted out with suppressed 7.62x51 DMR's when all you have is a enfield. But optics and other crazy force multipliers don't have to be common in a ww2 setting. I'd also be wary of adding any tracked vehicles; infantry need to be able to disable vehicles otherwise the group with a vehicle is undefeatable. Anyway, I'm keen to see where you all take this project, it sounds very cool. It'll be first person only yeah? I assume so from your interest in VR. 3rd person totally ruins a survival game for me; it's just too easy to abuse.
Also since we're talking about grass, will there be a forced minimum grass distance, so players have some garuntee they can remain hidden while prone at x distance? Or is that not really possible because of engine reasons?
Thanks for your interest. We've put our plans for photogrammetry on hold instead to hire a third coder to help contribute to the project. After we release the game on EA we plan to hire a company who has experience with photogrammetry to go out to the beaches of Normandy and photo capture all that for us. We discussed it inside the team and decided that it would be more prudent to invest more into making "Our Ghosts of War" as fun as it could be at the slight of cost of 100% photorealism and then come back to that when we have more funding.
Also you're right. The game is only intended to be played in first-person. There's a lot of debate going on in the team regarding tracked vehicles (along with everything else). The general feeling is that we do intend to include tracked vehicles because they were actually in the war zone. It wouldn't true to life if we tried to get around that. However tracked vehicles will require a lot of resources to craft because of how deadly they can be to players. Generally if players don't have a tracked vehicle of their own their best bet is probably to run the hell away. No different than in real life if you came up across a Tiger in 1944.
We're going to have to redo some of the source code in Unreal so that we can change how well the engine handles foliage. We're not happy at all with how it performs at the moment. Unlike CE3 which can handle all numbers of trees and foliage, UE4 isn't nearly as well optimized and in the end game performance suffers quite harshly. If we can achieve the optimizations we want then a forced grass distance will be implemented because foliage will perform decently even on lower end machines. However, if that ends up not being the case, then we will be forced to turn that off so that the game performs well on all machines.
For example for our last update: