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Re: Open Source - The future of Flashback - or the future of a new game[message #340660 is a reply to message #339776] Wed, 22 April 2015 10:50 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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 Hi so after a long, long time I´m going to respond. Yay.

Basically I´m very interested in coding this remake and create an Open Alliance for everybody.
But sadly my life circumstances changed due to some bad happenings and I need to deal with it.
So I think I can't work on it for months.
And yes, we are going to use Unreal Engine 4 for it, but as I said before, I´m not able to do any work for it right now.
But my decision is made, we all need an Open Alliance. And we are going to create it.

My experience with 2D graphics are that it's not much harder than 3D graphics.
Why? You need a ton of pictures for one person, instead of using only one 3D mesh.
And the camera angle would be fixed of course.
You can't do fancy things like "disconnecting" bones to remove "parts", you know what I mean? - You need to paint it.
Physics are also a problem here I think, we need of everything parts which is going to be "droppable".
(With 3D meshs it's much easier to handle, everybody loves the ragdoll physics I think big grin)
Also with cool shaders there are very nice effects possible, which I think is easier to handle as textures.
(Think of a way you shoot a ray through something, and you will see actually a hole where the ray hit it - okay, this could be more interesting in a FPS)

But there are other nice way's to handle it, the light calculation is ... automatically done throu the Unreal Engine.
Okay, but here is another one: Colored outlining on the enemy / chosen soldier, even if he moves. This is hard to be done with only 2D textures I think.
Or other fancy things like creating a cell shading - shader. (Okay nevermind, but it would be that hard)
And here is the most important reason I prefer 3D models I think: If you are done modeling the mesh (it takes time) you could attach any object to bones, modify the texture
to a higher detailed version of it, reuse the mesh itself, animations are much easier to handle and of course, animation works with similar objects with the right rigging.
If the model need a little bit rework, you are able to change with less work as with 2D textures. And you could modify things at runtime / bla bla.
I think to create the model wouldn't take so much longer, (it could be in some cases even quicker, like creating boxes or maybe even level modeling).
It is even possible to render the 3D models in a iso metric way to let them look like 2D models, (you can even "bake" them in this way in Blender I think).

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