Art Update 2

Environmental Changes | Optimizations | Extras | Next Update

Environmental Changes:

Temple Area Visuals

• Finalized Textures and Models

• Added Reactive Lighting

• Updated General Lighting

• Changed Collisions & Rendering of some Objects

• Moved Temple Gates to align with the Building Shape

• Added a few hidden references in and outside the Temple

Temple Area Playspace

• Removed all Invisible Walls

• Added connecting Catwalks on all sides (exterior)

• Added new Grenade Jump platforms (exterior)

• Updated Stair and Railing collisions to allow easy vaulting on/off them (exterior)

• Temple Gates now align on opposite sides of the Temple for easier traversal (interior)

• Reduced locations where the player could get stuck (interior/exterior)

The Blackout

• Introducing the 'Blackout', the birthplace of familiar foes

• If the player touches a part of the Blackout they are instantly killed

• Found on the exterior of the Main Walls, spans the perimeter of the Playable Space

Ambient Fog

• Fog no longer gets removed when facing West

• Increased the density of the Fog

• Fog is now reactive (more of this coming next update)

Skybox

• Darkened Global Skybox & Skylight

• Removed the Giant Statues from the Sky

Fortune Teller

• New Visuals

• Updated Animations

• Bugfixes

Optimizations:

• Changed Lighting in most scenarios from Light Sources to Emissive Textures

• Light Sources are only enabled once an Area is Unlocked

• Removed the Landscape & out-of-bounds Objects from Navigation Mesh calculations

• Removed out-of-bounds Objects & Lights never seen by Players

• Internal Benchmarks are showing a 10-20FPS increase on average from last Update

• Much more optimizations coming in the next Update

Extras:

• Added Bullet Holes onto Enemies Hit

• Sped up some Main Menu animations

Next Update:

• Next Update is mostly focused on the UI side of the Project. This ranges anywhere from replacing placeholder images in the UI to complete overhauls to how the UI functions & renders for optimization reasons.

• The final two Interactable Machines (Perktronix and Arsenal Ascender) are getting their final models, visuals, sfx, and animations added with some key updates to the Arsenal Ascender.

• More General QoL Changes and Optimizations

Update & Post made by: Vojmir in collaboration with Derek Douglas, Andy Cai, and Mhyra Vergaray