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LOL. We thought it was you ! Anyways thanks for checking out our work. :)
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LOL! Thanks for clearing that up. I actually thought I was replying to you. LOL.

Thanks for the encouragement. :D Getting this far is no easy feat for us. In fact, there's a lot more to worry about yet. Really hope I won't burn out before I get this game out.
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Hey guys!

Keep it up! This game looks very good already and the video you posted some time ago looked very promising!
About the new pics:
The ship setting looks very nice. Just I still recommend to increase the contrast with dark shadowed areas to increase the cramped atmosphere of that sunken metallic cage... (Do you know the movie "Below"?)

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lf3thn4d wrote:LOL! Thanks for clearing that up. I actually thought I was replying to you. LOL.

Thanks for the encouragement. :D Getting this far is no easy feat for us. In fact, there's a lot more to worry about yet. Really hope I won't burn out before I get this game out.
It's common towards the end of a project, right after delivery, for many in production game studios to take weeks off -- either just mentally, or physically being away from the studio. So what you are feeling is normal, and when you're done, if you feel like you don't want to look at a computer for a while, don't, until you're ready again -- that's normal. :)
Do you need help? What have you tried?

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yapdakilla wrote:LOL. We thought it was you ! Anyways thanks for checking out our work. :)
Even so, I've been watching it (lurking) for a while -- like I said, it's impressive, full stop, even more so when you consider the small team size (it's still just the two of you right?). Keep it up, the goal is worth the effort!
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Yes it is still just the two of us. Hence the long dev times. Hopefully the results will be worth the effort.
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This looks very professional for just two guys :shock:
I recognize the burning-out feeling when the end of the project is in sight. I even feel the same, and I am just developing an iPhone game :)

Keep up the good work. Simple amazing.
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By the way xavier, Wipeout HD is the last instance of a well known floating ship racing game that started on the first Playstation. You can watch the trailer there and there is the trailer of the excellent extension.

Hope your game will work too yapdakilla! :)
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Indeed, the quality is just point blank amazing for just two people. Im loving the in-ship shots, it's looking great! I also cant wait to see the implementation of the Teleport effect.

Keep it up. :)
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Just completed this booster pad.

*hint hint* plant mines in front of them. Any players using these pads will be forced to go over mines :P

includes parallax and animated illum maps to animate the glowy bits.

*update*
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Hey, pretty nice! It perfectly fits into the overall style set.
Just one thing: I think the pad is too shiny where it reflects the specular light. I wouldn´t expect this from a rusty surface.

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Ooh, awesome man!
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any updates on this? looking good :D
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Hi dave2041,

No big updates so far except for a few posted on our blogs, still trying to make the 2nd level track feel "dangerous":

Track node update:
http://liquidrockgames.blogspot.com/200 ... pdate.html

and couple more props for the undersea level:
http://liquidrockgames.blogspot.com/200 ... ector.html
http://liquidrockgames.blogspot.com/200 ... -prop.html

And finally gotten our own website url:
http://www.liquidrockgames.com/

and Aftershocks own dedicated site (still wip) :
http://aftershock.liquidrockgames.com/

and a small mention of an award we won in our home country:
http://liquidrockgames.blogspot.com/200 ... games.html
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Hey, congratulation for the price! :D

Do you actually have a roadmap for aftershock you could present here? Is a 2010 release realistic?

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Hi guys,

Heres a forcefield test for the undersea track to keep the seawater out from flooding the tracks.

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Hey looks great!

Are you using some kind of Fresnel effect? It looks a bit like that. Is the animation a video or something procedural?

First I wanted to recommend to add some kind of random moving beam over the surface but the caustic like effect looks also very nice!

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Hi xadhoom,

We are using a couple of effects on this. The first being the fresnel effect that you mentioned and double layered additive texture with scrolling noise which is tweaked to look like its a procedural effect. We are planning to have refractive effect on the force field layer in the near future.
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Update to the underwater track forcefield with refraction.

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Awesome :)
I keep wondering: can you guys top it?
And each and every time you do. :D
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Looking really good. Maybe you could add some particle water drops? To show that it is barely holding the water in :) I think it would greatly add to that apocalyptic atmosphere :twisted:
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Thanks for the feedback guys. :) Particle water drops is under the FX department. Right now, we haven't got to the point of adding FX system to our engine. Once we get there, there will surely be plenty of FX additions to our levels. So stay tuned. :D
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Update on deferred lighting approach:

http://liquidrockgames.blogspot.com/201 ... roach.html
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Cool stuff!
I don't know how far you are into implementing this, but if you're using Ogre 1.7 (or trunk) then the latest additions to the compositor framework can help for light pre-pass as well.
Besides the new features that are heavily used in the deferred shading demo (programmable composition pass, cross compositor referencing etc) there is also the compositor content_type feature that was added a bit later, that lets you reference compositor textures directly in material scripts. In your case, the 3rd step (render opaque scene compositing light buffer) could use this to easily link between the L-buffer and the objects...

Anyway, good luck!
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Thanks Noman :) That's what I intend to do. I had been eying on your compositor changes all for this for some time already. Really, thanks to you. You're the life saver here making things easier for me. :P
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