Article: Game Art Art
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Hi friends! Not sure if i'm correct here, but my issue is heavily technical - but of course about game art. Anyway this is pure self-advertisment. I write an articles about...
It goes about crazy ideas or awesome tech fakes which made an cool effect. I write about this in my blog and collected everyting i can remember. Feel free to comment about my stuff, explain what i didn't understood or tell me about what stuff impressed you.
01 Fallout 3 - Edges
02 Teleglitch - Viewcones
03 Teleglitch - RGB Flickering
04 Diablo 3 - 2.5D Trees
05 Warcraft 3 - Billboards
06 Divine Divinity - 2D Reflexion
07 Cell Shading
08 Deus Ex - Occlusion
09 Deus Ex 3 - Folds
10 Deus Ex - Scan Lines
11 World of Warcraft - Balloon
12 Assassins Creed 3 - Windows
13 Assassins Creed 3 - LoD Blending
14 Kid Icarus - Tricks
15 Left 4 Dead - Puke
16 Sacred 2 - Crystal Reflexion
17 Sacred 2 - Pulse Shader
18 Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Smoke Column
19 Battlefield 2 - Flag Pole
20 Sacred 2 - Burning Map
21 Assassins Creed 3 - Bouncing Light
22 Airborn - Trees
23 1943- Retro Shadows
24 Metal Gear Rising - Slicing
25 Dead Space 3 - Diffuse Reflections
26 Homeworld 2 - Backgrounds
26.2 Homeworld 2 - Backgrounds.Tech
27 Diablo 3 - Resource Bubbles
28 007 Legends - The World
29 Homeworld 2 - Engines
30 Homeworld 2 - Hyperspace
31 Bioshock - Glossiness
32 Starcraft 2 - Localization
33 Doom 3 - Volumetric Glow
34 Doom 3 - HDUI
35 Scribble Cel
36 Lego Batman - Crawler
37 Dungeon Keeper 2 - Walls
38 Lego - Studs
39 1nsane Carpet 2 - Repetitive Worlds
40 The Binding of Isaac - Composition
41 Company of Heroes - Shaded Smoke
42 Company of Heroes - Flamethrower
43 World of Torch Siege - Blended Trunks
44 Oblivion Territory – Tree vs Palm
45 Handmade Normal Map
46 Tomb Raider - Laras Hot Secrets
47 Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7
48 Windows - AC/Row/Infinite
49 Render Hell 2.0
50 Zelda Wind Waker - Hyrule Travel Guide
51 Rei Ayanami – Inner eyes
52 Sacred 2 – Fake Mirror
53 X:Rebirth – Geometric Lensflares
54 Fallout 4 - Wasteland Eyes
55 What is Color Banding? And what is it not?
56 Fallout 4 - The Mushroom Case
57 Diablo III - The sacred spiderweb
58 Alpha1 - My Top 5 usescases
59 Blubb! - Fish Tanks in Games
60 Diablo III - Wings of Angels
61 Dark Maus - Top Down Trees
62 Alien vs Wolfenstein – Cutting Torch
63 The Joy of VFX – Pin Table
64 Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag – Waterplane
"Fakes & Tricks of games which impressed me"
It goes about crazy ideas or awesome tech fakes which made an cool effect. I write about this in my blog and collected everyting i can remember. Feel free to comment about my stuff, explain what i didn't understood or tell me about what stuff impressed you.
01 Fallout 3 - Edges
02 Teleglitch - Viewcones
03 Teleglitch - RGB Flickering
04 Diablo 3 - 2.5D Trees
05 Warcraft 3 - Billboards
06 Divine Divinity - 2D Reflexion
07 Cell Shading
08 Deus Ex - Occlusion
09 Deus Ex 3 - Folds
10 Deus Ex - Scan Lines
11 World of Warcraft - Balloon
12 Assassins Creed 3 - Windows
13 Assassins Creed 3 - LoD Blending
14 Kid Icarus - Tricks
15 Left 4 Dead - Puke
16 Sacred 2 - Crystal Reflexion
17 Sacred 2 - Pulse Shader
18 Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Smoke Column
19 Battlefield 2 - Flag Pole
20 Sacred 2 - Burning Map
21 Assassins Creed 3 - Bouncing Light
22 Airborn - Trees
23 1943- Retro Shadows
24 Metal Gear Rising - Slicing
25 Dead Space 3 - Diffuse Reflections
26 Homeworld 2 - Backgrounds
26.2 Homeworld 2 - Backgrounds.Tech
27 Diablo 3 - Resource Bubbles
28 007 Legends - The World
29 Homeworld 2 - Engines
30 Homeworld 2 - Hyperspace
31 Bioshock - Glossiness
32 Starcraft 2 - Localization
33 Doom 3 - Volumetric Glow
34 Doom 3 - HDUI
35 Scribble Cel
36 Lego Batman - Crawler
37 Dungeon Keeper 2 - Walls
38 Lego - Studs
39 1nsane Carpet 2 - Repetitive Worlds
40 The Binding of Isaac - Composition
41 Company of Heroes - Shaded Smoke
42 Company of Heroes - Flamethrower
43 World of Torch Siege - Blended Trunks
44 Oblivion Territory – Tree vs Palm
45 Handmade Normal Map
46 Tomb Raider - Laras Hot Secrets
47 Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7
48 Windows - AC/Row/Infinite
49 Render Hell 2.0
50 Zelda Wind Waker - Hyrule Travel Guide
51 Rei Ayanami – Inner eyes
52 Sacred 2 – Fake Mirror
53 X:Rebirth – Geometric Lensflares
54 Fallout 4 - Wasteland Eyes
55 What is Color Banding? And what is it not?
56 Fallout 4 - The Mushroom Case
57 Diablo III - The sacred spiderweb
58 Alpha1 - My Top 5 usescases
59 Blubb! - Fish Tanks in Games
60 Diablo III - Wings of Angels
61 Dark Maus - Top Down Trees
62 Alien vs Wolfenstein – Cutting Torch
63 The Joy of VFX – Pin Table
64 Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag – Waterplane
To give you some hints whats that all about, here some of the pictures i made for the article:
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#52 Sacred 2 Fake Mirror
Finally the Update is here! HUGE thx to CrazyButcher - he made the update possible. We hope you'll like it!
WHATS NEW? VIDEO
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#49 - Render Hell 2.0
Something I've always wondered about is how texture atlasing works with tiling textures?
Also, regarding instanced geometry ; each instance can be dynamically lit independently right?
Basically mipmaps are computed from the difference of texture coordinates with quad (2x2 pixel threads). When you do the coordinate wrapping yourself (say u 1.1 is turned to 0.1), then you may have a huge difference (one pixel being 0.9 and the other 0.1 where it originally was 1.1). The shader code basically has to keep that in mind.
yes can do anything you want with instancing, you just having another "value" as shader input that you can use to fetch data (matrices...) for each instance.
hardware instancing for low-complexity meshes (few triangles) however is not super fast for all hardware. But there is some tricks to get around that. That's why instancing is typically not used to create particles/billboards...
Any chance they'll be live again sometime? It would be a shame for all this awesome info to disappear into the void. Thanks again for all the hard work in putting these articles together!
I opened up a new category which goes about Workflow Tricks. Are you interested in this stuff or should I post it somewhere else?
Anyway, until I've your feedback, I'll show what the first article looks like:
Workflow Trick #1
Introduction Video:
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Article:
http://simonschreibt.de/wft/watchdog/
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Diablo Gate - From Hater to Lover
it's another Workflow Trick! It's about working a bit more efficient with XML-Asset-Libraries.
Workflow Trick #2
Introduction Video
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Article
http://simonschreibt.de/wft/open-assets-with-notepad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrnI5Du9deU#t=00m35s
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Special_Effects
Here's a cool tool for slowing down videos, or watching frame by frame.
http://anilyzer.com/?page_id=7&type=youtube&vId=NrnI5Du9deU#playbackRate=1&seekTo=33
You and Cristoph have my upmost respect
Glad to hear that you like the artices
Eric
Wow, didn't know anilyzer.com! Great tool!!
Joao Sapiro
I'm an simple artist too which is why I'm amazed by tech which for others might be standard. Since I never worked with "real" engines like unreal/unity/cry (both companies I worked at used in-house engines), i miss a lot great features and when I finally "discover" them I'm blown away
#53 X:Rebirth Geometric Lensflares
@adam Do you know what's going on here? The Links where working perfectly ... I guess this happened with the change to the new Polycount?
@jovcem You can watch all tricks here: simonschreibt.de/game-art-tricks/
Also it looks like your signature links need to be updated. Sorry about this, just one of the kinks in the transition.
I hear some repetitive work knocking on the door ...
Thanks for the Info
054 Fallout - Wasteland Eyes
NEW Game Art Trick
Choose: Read the Article OR watch it as movie055 What is Color Banding? And what is it not?
The video format is great, i personally look on youtube FIRST when trying to track down a solution or tutorial or something.
However there is a caveat that I've heard about that images are easier to share. weather its on pinterest, or just linking to a .gif. you don't need to have audio to get the information, its all there to look at and diguest at your own pace (rather than the pace of the video).
Again just some thoughts Ive heard from people as I myself prefer youtube.
Yeah you're right. The image-linking is a good point and personally I love watching videos the first time but don't like search in a video for a specific spot. In this case I prefer hitting Ctrl+F and quickly search for an information. So having both might be the best but I have to see if I've time for doing that. Thanks for your feedback!
I totally understand your point! Good feedback, thank you!
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