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Aesthetics
July 22, 2019
I’ve been working for a while on the aesthetics of the game and specifically, how to improve them. I specifically implemented two ideas I had.
The First Idea - Material Encoding
I decided to encode the material of an object using that pixel’s alpha value. alpha % 16 results in 16 possible values for me to use. I use the upper 8 values of the 16 to encode the destructible versions of the lower 8 values. Below is a sample of what I created for water, leaves, and bricks. All materials currently act as a white overlay on top of the base color of the pixel
The water is animated and was created using this tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg0L9aCRWPE&t=524s
The leaves were created using voronoi cells boundaries as an overlay.
The bricks are the result of a repeating texture I created myself.
What was Broken
The rewrite I had to do of all the code took a while but now enemies are working again! Bombs and magic were both broken and are still mostly broken. I’m not going to fix them because I want to fully design the magic system first. Then I will implement magic again. Because I’ve increasingly wanting to design the player to play as a druid (like the last game I worked on with Unreal), it makes way less sense for the player to use bombs.
The Second Idea - Height Encoding
The other of the two ideas I had was to use the alpha value to encode the height of the pixels. I encode height using alpha / 16. In this way I can encode height, material, and destructible-ness using the alpha value of every pixel. Because of this method, there are 16 possible heights with the highest being shown below. Ground level is set at 6 and, for refrence, the river is set at 3.
