new waypoint art

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Fusion_Power wrote:

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Russell wrote:

I have to admit they are too bloomy. Problem is there is no way to increase or decrease how much bloom an object receives. I love what they look like in dark environments but man in the brighter areas they go bright white and huge.

I Could make them dimmer and so on but we were trying to make them stand out even when activated.

The new WP art is a step in the right direction. Now you have to get rid of these horrible ugly white doorway/entrance highlights. Seriously, who kept THAT in the (post beta)game? O.o" My "view of a graphics-guy" always screams in pain when it sees that plain white highlighting. ^^""

Here, this is how a proper entrance highlight could look:

http://www.rarityguide.com/articles/content_images/1/diablo3/diablo3cathedrallevel1.jpg *
*colour may vary

With such an outstanding portal you don't need any additional highlight effects! ;)

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Fusion_Power wrote:

Stairs/doors/entrances could all have the same effect, maybe different colours to separate them from an Portal/waypoint and of course different shapes. But overall it can and should be the same effect to always recognize it as clickable pathway.
I have no clue how GGG can throw out the most impressive Microtransaction effects and art, even animated and all-polished but still has these ugly white "alpha" entrance effects in. Talented people are there, obviously, but nobody has time to finalize these basic graphic pieces?

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

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Fusion_Power wrote:

Stairs/doors/entrances could all have the same effect, maybe different colours to separate them from an Portal/waypoint and of course different shapes. But overall it can and should be the same effect to always recognize it as clickable pathway.
I have no clue how GGG can throw out the most impressive Microtransaction effects and art, even animated and all-polished but still has these ugly white "alpha" entrance effects in. Talented people are there, obviously, but nobody has time to finalize these basic graphic pieces?

When I say different effects, I mean the same effect but custom molded to suit the shape of the doorway that it is attached/applied to. That takes a lot more work then what was required to update effects for the waypoint (There are numerous different door/entry designs).

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Fusion_Power wrote:

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

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Fusion_Power wrote:

Stairs/doors/entrances could all have the same effect, maybe different colours to separate them from an Portal/waypoint and of course different shapes. But overall it can and should be the same effect to always recognize it as clickable pathway.
I have no clue how GGG can throw out the most impressive Microtransaction effects and art, even animated and all-polished but still has these ugly white "alpha" entrance effects in. Talented people are there, obviously, but nobody has time to finalize these basic graphic pieces?

When I say different effects, I mean the same effect but custom molded to suit the shape of the doorway that it is attached/applied to. That takes a lot more work then what was required to update effects for the waypoint (There are numerous different door/entry designs).

Uh, you usualy use shader effects for this stuff, it's not "hand made". You already have the white surfaces, they are already matching and defined. I can imagine that GGG can replace these with more transparent and different coloured versions, add some shader effects for that surface and it's basicly done. ^^
No need to start from 0.

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Russell wrote:

You still have to end up making about 4-5 versions for this. We were gonna do this then our graphics programmer left to work on his own engine... It was his next task. Then water : <

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Russell wrote:

You still have to end up making about 4-5 versions for this. We were gonna do this then our graphics programmer left to work on his own engine... It was his next task. Then water : <

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Fusion_Power wrote:

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Russell wrote:

You still have to end up making about 4-5 versions for this. We were gonna do this then our graphics programmer left to work on his own engine... It was his next task. Then water : <

Uh, he's gone? O.o"
Well, I guess you still have talented GFX artists there, all the new Legendarys (3D Art) and Microtransactions they throw out regulary, like full animated pets seems to be much more complex than a plain portal highlight surface. :)

And your water is fine, what should be wrong with that?

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

They're after much more realistic water (Water crashing against rocks/walls/surfaces), a way to control the direction the water flows, the speed it flows at, how choppy it is, reflective properties of the water surface including translucency etc. (I think), otherwise they want to fix the age old bug where auras aren't visible in water.