I'm going to give the hard surface environment a shot. I'll be deviating from the concept a bit, but I'll keep the general feel. Once I get further along, I'll probably change the textures on these assets to be less NYC specific, but these were the easiest to find good reference for. I plan on creating a full interior in…
Working at the moment on a automated optical kerning solution that will build a kerning pair table based purely on the shapes of each bitmap letter. The first step is already done which was detecting with rays certain line heights (shown in red). This will be an advantage when it comes to non western languages as there are…
I was under the impression all those people were under contract since porting, mobile devices and others nic-nac's aren't part of Valve's core development team? More like a freelance or side-gig at the studio and weren't permanent unless the project required long term investment? Kinda like the entire Fairy games Valve…