Role playing game Protyping

[SpiderMack]

Hi,


Skyline is indeed a fast developement software, it has some great base of scripts , 3D models, characters, particles or presets to get quickly started and have a prototype in some minutes, before adding our own content and scripts.

I have many role playing game ideas and styles i want to test in Skyline, from old school to something more modern with a focus on objects and environment interaction.

Gen 1 IBL and materials already do great.

[StarFire]

Yes gen 1 certainly has a nice renderer where Gen2 has added to this a modern HDR based lighting and expanded upon the gen 1's fast workflows including object interactions. ie player can walk over to the car and then get in it, open doors, use keys on locked doors, read notes and of course there is the new quest system to help with rpg ideas

[TattieBoJangle]

Gen 2 is so much more but it is like everything in life it takes time to learn

here is a small look at what it can do

[SpiderMack]

Gen 2 is so much more but it is like everything in life it takes time to learn

here is a small look at what it can do

That's amazing, it already looks like a triple A game
Is this your work ?

[TattieBoJangle]

thanks I used to do a lot of 3d work but as I don't have the time now days I buy most of my stuff in that and the collection growing collection over the years.

[SpiderMack]

thanks I used to do a lot of 3d work but as I don't have the time now days I buy most of my stuff in that and the collection growing collection over the years.

This is the way to go
All AAA game studios even smaller ones make their own assets but they also outsource or buy 3D assets they modify, it's a huge time saver instead of having to do all the process ( sculpt, retopo, UV, paint).

[SpiderMack]

I am ipressed by SKyline IBL quality on model and shadows

Adjusting IBL skybox, scene skybox and directionnal light color and value , you get very good and realistic scene lighting.
It looks gorgeous.

Notice the yellow lighting on the model is IBL, the directionnal light is dark blue color.



I don't know if it should be better to have some scene lighting presets menu ?
(for people to quickly setup their scene lighting the right way)

A preset would be something that would set up automatically with values :
1) Directionnal light scene
2) IBL skybox
3) scene Skybox

Perhaps for some future version ?

[StarFire]

Yes this is being developed in the Game objects panel for lighting, got many ideas for this

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[StarFire]

Forgot to add there are , for now the HDR light settings presets:

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[SpiderMack]

Forgot to add there are , for now the HDR light settings presets:

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I kept HDR in the first selection : "Clear skys"
It gives me the best results whatever the scene is dark or clear, but indeed other HDR settings can be usefull.

It's just Skyline IBL on models and shadows looks so amazing good

[StarFire]

It's just Skyline IBL on models and shadows looks so amazing good

Thank you that's nice to hear

[SpiderMack]

Making some dark lighting , with self illumination materials and playing with Bloom values in Skyline, it's great for very sci fi atmospheric scenes

[SolarPortal]

yes, with the long streaks. you can get a very abrams inspired anamorphic lens flares lol

[SpiderMack]

It's also directionnal light still making shadows with good values in a dark scene.
I like Skyline rendering a lot, now i must move on prototyping some gameplay

Let's make it stable for a big Steam release

[SolarPortal]

The rendering is very arty in gen2, we look forward to even the basic post processors of brightness, contrast, tone mapping etc..

Let's make it stable for a big Steam release

We are doing our best!

[SpiderMack]

Some standard shader i would like to find in skyline is cartoon shader

[SolarPortal]

yes, would be cool. But wont be until we have sorted the rest out, so after release

[SpiderMack]

Messing with particles and point lights

[SpiderMack]

Playing with construction kit, a quick made Sci Fi doom like game



It's great for learning, but i'll make my own code for player, game logic, weapons and AI.

[SpiderMack]

Skyline lighting and materials are great

[SolarPortal]

cool. glad your having fun.

those corridors use multiple materials which you can apply by selecting the entity, then go to the third icon on the property panel in the top left, then drag a material onto the slot.

Each slot represents a submesh in the entities model.

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[SpiderMack]

Nice

[SpiderMack]

I like Lua properties editing and custom image header option

[SolarPortal]

yes, its very cool isn't it and the fact that it is all dynamic to the script and can be edited per entity makes it really powerful. Shareable scripts

[SpiderMack]

New mocking-up