Added 2 old and 1 new topic. #9 Deus Ex 3 - Folds #10 Deus Ex - Scan Lines #11 World of Warcraft - Balloon The last one is brand new and maybe you can help to find the solution. Here is a hint picture:
I added the single posts for the most parts of the article now. #1 Fallout 3 - Edges #2 Teleglitch - Viewcones #3 Teleglitch - RGB Flickering #4 Diablo 3 - 2.5D Trees #5 Warcraft 3 - Billboards #6 Divine Divinity - 2D Reflexion #7 Cell Shading #8 Deus Ex - Occlusion
if I dont forget about it I will record some vids. Also the Warcraft 3 flat sphere things. You could bake a sphere to a quad for a normalmap and make it react to light properly, instead of faking it with view dependant darkening. You wont see the backside of a sphere anyway. It fun seeing things you thought of by yourself…
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... "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…
Felixenfeu Thank you! Oh yeah, the tricks they do are really amazing. :,) Vrav I LOVE the ac shadows since the first one. I have no idea how they do these great stuff. But interesting note: at least in part 1 & 2 the didn't had shadows in the indoor rooms - but it wasn't a big issue. Looked stunning anwayway and there were…