Caelus: The Descent (UDK)

Kazperstan

Hey guys,
So we thought it was about time we should get posting this on here.
We are currently 2nd years at the University of Hertfordshire working on our end of year project. You can see all the progress that has happened in these places:

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/CaelusTheDescent?fref=ts
IndieDB
http://www.indiedb.com/games/caelus-the-descent

Annd these are the lovely people that have been working on it:

David Nicholls - http://www.dmnicholls.co.uk
Karen Stanley - Environment Artist - www.kazperstan.co.uk
Adam Ostridge - Concept and FX Artist - www.adamostridge.co.uk
Jasmeet Dhatt - Character and Concept Artist - http://www.dhatt.biz/photography/jasmine-dhatt
Elyse Gymer - Animation - http://www.elysegymer.co.uk/
Neviera Žygimantas - Rigging - http://dropr.com/neviera
Micheal Chrostek - Composer - https://soundcloud.com/michaelchrostek

And now some screenshots:

We are still very much open to feedback as we begin to finish this up, so anything you guys can think of feel free to say!

There will be some video soon so keep an eye out

rollin

hey ho.. first the links are broken.. guess you just copied the text from the board and not the link underneath.

I like the natural feeling of the env... As far as I can see it. The biggest issue here is imo the lighting which is washed out and not carving the props out with light and shadow but making them look all the same. It ends up to be super monochrome.

here's a quick mockup with untouched lighting (obviously) but to show the colors you have hidden in your shots

Kazperstan

Hey rollin, thanks for the link notice, should all be fixed now

Here's an older shot before the lighting as it is now, it was much less colourful

We had a play about though with the trees but due to the sunset lighting being a warm orange it naturally desaturates the green, so if we bump it up it just looks odd.

We are working on getting colour in with wildlife though, Adam had a little accident with some butterflies XD

locater16

Amazing! I want to be wandering around these environments, great job.

mediochrea

Beautiful, loving the atmosphere here.

littleclaude

Very nice work guys, whats the frame rate like? i want to play it on the Oculus Rift.

Will you be making some tutorials or have you got any that you can post, shaders, textures and so on?

Shriken

We might be able to get a "walk through" style gameplay working within a week or so, no promises though . We have a few breakdowns of our workflow, heres one I made for the town houses. Nothing too advanced!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBrolC-GrmI"]Caelus - The Descent: Easthaven Houses Breakdown - YouTube[/ame]

Kazperstan

Wow so we just finished up at film day at Uhanimation Expos