Last week I needed to take a break from the toolset. After some heavy writing and area creation sessions, I was burned out a little bit (I guess this happens to everyone working with the TS from time to time).I decided to give "The Witcher" another chance, since it was not playable after launch on my machine. The loading times between the area transitions were straight out off hell. So I patched it and started all over from the beginning.
And what should I say... I simply love it ! Great dark and gloomy atmosphere, rememberable characters and a compelling story ! A lot has been written about this game, so I think you know what it is about. If not... go and play it !
Of course my main reason was to get a closer look at all those fantastic looking areas. From screenshots, every view looks like a painting. Perfect use of color pallets and lightning. And I think I can say I have learned a lot about the texturing and lightning techniques the developers used. I have also figured out a neat trick they do with backdrops in the background, faking some great vistas (like in this picture here, all mountains in the distance are just simple painted planes). I will try to do adept this in the TS soon.
Besides that, I have joined a german NWN2 modding group called Feline Fuelled Games (Hi guys!). I love their modules they have previously finished and I will do some areas for the their upcoming stuff. In return, I hope to finish my little project with their help.
Learning from the witcher, I have painted a whole new set of textures for my upcoming areas. I will post some shots of them within the week.
But for now I have to go back to Geralt and solve some mysteries about an old druide tower in the swamps of Wyzima :)
4 Kommentare:
Hi Ayrin
I played through The Witcher twice. I loved it! I am looking forward to the big update in May! Reducing loading times by 80% "thats huge" And more dialog added.
I agree you can get some great ideas for areas in that game.
Congratulations on joining the team. And looking forward to more from your module :)
Liso
The witcher is pretty awesome. I've only played it once, only because the second run through, I got tired of the rather poorly constructed dialogues. I dunno how the German version is, so i can't speak for that version.
Maybe I can replay it again soon :)
And if you're looking for ideas, wait till you get to Chapter IV. Talk about a real beauty there. Least the first area that you go to. The entire farm grasslands is kind of "blah".
PS: Congrats on the new team. Shame I can't understand what they're saying ;)
Yes, I´m quit happy with the team. There are some very talented people over there with a lot of experience in making modules (what I´m lacking off). I hope to learn a lot from them and to finish my module within the next months.
Josh, do you mean the first area of the last chapter ? I only took a sneak peak on the ice plains. Really impressiv there!
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