{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/teamflare\/","author_name":"TeamFlare","cat":"LD #28","categories":["LD #28"],"comments":[],"epoch":1388918640,"event":"LD28","likes":6,"metadata":{"p_key":"79857","p_author":"TeamFlare","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"288867","p_title":"RGB Graphics Postmortem","p_cat":"LD #28","p_event":"LD28","p_time":"1388918640","p_likes":"6","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1386892800","event_key":"20","event_name":"LD28"},"source_url":"2014\/01\/05\/rgb-graphics-postmortem\/","text":"
Time for a little graphics postmortem for our entry RGB.<\/div>\n
Which you can play here \":)\"<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0The theme was anounced the same night we had a big xmas party at the company. Which of course ment massive hangovers with all teammember \";)\"<\/div>\n

Like last time, our team was 6 people, two of them working on graphics.<\/p>\n

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Finding a look, part 1 :<\/strong><\/div>\n
Last time we could make an art test before we started working on the actual graphics.<\/div>\n
This time we originally planned to use a technique involving crayons and an iron ( I spare you the<\/div>\n
details ), but had no real time to test it properly.<\/div>\n
It didn\u2019t look appealing enough,so by late saturday, we had to completely re-orient the style.<\/div>\n
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Lesson learned :\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
Know what you can achieve using a technique, there\u2019s little room for experimentation to get a<\/div>\n
difficult look right if you\u2019re new to the technique.<\/div>\n
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Finding a look, part 2 :<\/strong><\/div>\n
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This was the final styleframe we arrived at<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

After some time fiddling around in 3dsmax we arrived at some very lowpoly crystaline structures.<\/div>\n
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We worked till very early in the morning to design and model the character models and getting a<\/div>\n
style frame to look right.<\/div>\n
The Style heavily used post effects, but we were using the indie version of unity, planning<\/div>\n
to install the pro trial later on to add those finishing touches. But that never happened due to<\/div>\n
time constraints, so the game is missing some of the eye candy.<\/div>\n
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Some concept iterations while we worked on the characters<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lesson learned :<\/strong><\/div>\n
If something is incremental for the look, don\u2019t treat it like the thing you can switch on quickly later,<\/div>\n
because later, there might not be time left.<\/div>\n
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Workflow :<\/strong><\/div>\n
We had no idea how to work with unity collaboratively. So there was some constant back and forth where<\/div>\n
we had to stall the coding or level design process to get assets integrated or to tweak little things.<\/div>\n
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Lesson learned :<\/strong><\/div>\n
If you work with a specific engine, figure out a way how to effortlessly work together with<\/div>\n
several people at the same time. It\u2019s very good to controll the entire process from creation to<\/div>\n
final integration the asset.<\/div>\n
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This it how it looked like in the end :)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But what went right, was that we got something decent together. And doing something realtime 3D<\/div>\n
was fun.<\/div>\n
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Tools used :<\/div>\n
- 3dsmax<\/div>\n
- Photoshop<\/div>\n
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Although this Ludum Dare went a whole lot rougher than the previous one, we learned alot more from<\/div>\n
our mistakes this time.<\/div>\n
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We\u2019ll post a coding postmortem later this night \":)\"<\/div>\n
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Looking forward to the next one\u00a0 \":)\"<\/div>\n
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Teamflare<\/div>","time":"January 5th, 2014 10:44 am","title":"RGB Graphics Postmortem","title_was_empty":false}