SCREENSHOT SURVIVAL 20XX

I'm making a stupid, light-hearted gam for once.

author=JosephSeraph
I actually really love how dark it is. It creates a really amazing compositional contrast, and a really beautiful tone. It's indeed jawdropping. My only complaint is the bottom part of the floating island tiles because I think they should fade to a lighter color in order to blend better with the clouds, or have some floating rocks etc to better emphasize the idea of floating islands.

Yeah, agreed with this comment. It's a great color composition, but you could take it even further, depending on how frequently it's in the game.

Are you using an overlay to "mask" parts of the map, pixel-by-pixel? Or did you darken the tiles in the chipset itself? XD If you're taking the former approach, it wouldn't be too much trouble to lighten the bottom edges, like Jo suggested.

Just a rough/quick edit, but you get the idea.

luchino i am very excited to slay the cookie monster

author=Liberty
That angle is very different, though - light coming from below and object would shine up into it. Light coming from behind an object throws it in relief, hence the darkening. Also, the further away you are from said object, the darker it would appear and the less details shown.

just an image overlay, but it adds a bit of light to the image. I think I like the whiter one better.

Hm. I'd think the angle wouldn't matter. Either way, you've got a light source behind something that's blocking it. Like, if you took my example picture, it'd look the same way if you said that was rotating on its z-axis 90 degrees, so that those mountains were the floor. That wouldn't cause the effect that you're showing. Or maybe I'm not totally understanding you.

Now, the ceiling of the cave would be illuminated, but I don't think it'd cause that glowy effect that you're showing.



Wouldn't this look the same way even if you put this up in the air and rotated it 90 degrees so it was looking down at the sunset ocean?

EDIT: Oh, I think I see what you're saying. That's not a "glowy" effect, it's just you trying to lighten the side of the cliffs, as though light were shining on them and gradually fading as you get higher.

I'm not sure that can be achieved convincingly with picture overlays without alpha blending, unfortunately.

At any rate, this scene is at Sunset, so I think the angle would create the same lights.

That looks damn nice.

Erave,

Everything is looking so great.
A few comments you can pass along if you want:

I hate the battle UI. The graphics in everything are so awesome, it really brings everything down in my opinion. I have seen the other battle screens and the whole layout doesn't do it for me.

I would center the words Weapon Armor Artifact vertically in that box, as it stands there is too much space at the top and not enough under artifact.

The top right of the menu, the curved window looks blurred and weird. I noticed that in some other shots as well, idk if thats a stylistic choice or what.

Being overly critical, since that's what you guys need, you already know that shit is looking on point.

Good work.

Hey Dookie, nice catch on the Weapom/Armor/Artifact alignment. We had spent weeks aligning text but for some reason I never noticed it.

Here's some other shots of the Battle UI. Any thoughts are appreciated. Most of the last few weeks have just been spent tweaking minor things, text alignment, cursor positions etc...still a bit more to do:





Dookie, I fixed this! Thanks for your great eye:

@Erave: That castle is so rad, holy shit.