Crystallic Light Ranged Weapons
Added 2018-07-01 05:38:57 +0000 UTCI worked quite hard on sketching out a ton of different ideas, starting with somewhat random scribbles and a vague idea, and ending up with a unique design language!
Usually games produce weapons by the same principle as producing characters: first making concept art for each specific weapon, then modelling it, texturing, animating, and putting it into the game...
However, for us doing it this way would require a lot of time on something that is not exactly the central focus of the game, its not a first person shooter after all where it would be essential.
The idea is to develop a set of various modular pieces, lego bricks if you will, to assemble those weapons out of them! Various materials, parts, lights, crystals, projectors, pistons, mechanisms, panels, covers, grips, etc...
It won't be an in-game feature to build custom weapons, but for us and modders it will provide quite a tool-set. We can re-use those modular parts to keep coming up with new weapons on the fly, perhaps even without ever opening a 3d-modelling program! Slap some parts together, write some scripts, and off to playtest it!
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Aside from art, there has been a major refactor of game code going on, all old junk is being deleted, C++ and Blueprint classes renamed and organized in a nice way, overall preparing the game for adding playable content, not barebone systems (yet those systems are of course essential to support content, they are a bit hard to find amazing without the cool content itself).
A little bit on a sad side, I lost some time solving various PC issues this month (they are still not solved unfortunately), if not for that I'd already be doing models, but I'll try to do my best to catch up in the next month, at least now I have a perfect plan of what to model, right? :}
But to not end with that, I would like, yet again, to say thanks to every one of you for your support! We are working very hard to make this game real, but it takes a lot of time, as usual. Thank you for being with us <3.
Comments
Damn. Fantastic artwork man. These are so unique and different from other "hi-tech" and si-fi designs others come up with. Love the "arm mounted" one that is the fourth down on the left (right above the materials).
Grnd91
2018-07-01 16:50:56 +0000 UTCIt's all just so awesome. I love sci fi weapon design and these are just awesome.
2018-07-01 06:03:40 +0000 UTCI can't put in words how awesome these weapon parts already look like... Especially the lowest right one! Love the design!
Rid
2018-07-01 05:46:51 +0000 UTC
