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Hmmm, cool graphics, the underwater rock is the coolest

Very good work organizing it all so nicely. It all looks great so far!

Great work! I think it would be best to those who can provide graphics post them here, so we can easily use them. We will need this thread more and more as deveplovement goes. (Similiar to music thread)

This is excellent, now our programmers can access any graphics they want with ease.

Hopefully it will run on low-end computers. Graphics is not our main concern (althrough it can be the biggest one for some games). There has been a LOT of discusion on how to make the game playable on lower-end computers (or in any computer at all, the model of evolution we want cant be handled by any computer)

Something to remember is that each stage progresses with complexity and will take exponentially longer to make, but computers will be improving as we go, so hopefully what are now high end computers will be low end by the time we get the full game down (for the first time).

Well, when Thrive 1.0 is downloadable, my friend's computer is middle tier. XD
Whilst now it is a god pc.

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Something to remember is that each stage progresses with complexity and will take exponentially longer to make, but computers will be improving as we go, so hopefully what are now high end computers will be low end by the time we get the full game down (for the first time).

Actually our hope was that as we release each stage, the influx of new programmers would cancel out the increased complexity and it would take roughly the same time for each stage. Only time will tell though.

One can only hope.

I think the Graphics should be like minecraft or space engine it could be in a menu like turn off high textured grass and stuff like that and use LOD settings

Remember that this is a thread where Xazo-Tak stores his art assets, not where we discuss the graphics for the game (as the name might suggest).

You should have read the first post.

I might try my hand at some textures. Any requests?

If you did some textures for various organelles, it might be useful for modellers. Other than that I don't think there's anything we need from the implementation side at this point. That doesn't mean you couldn't make anything else ofc.

For organelle, a lot of the translucent ones look like they are a job for a shaders. For example: Mitochondria has a translucent outer shell that, from whatever view, seems more opaque at the edges. Textures, as you probably know, cannot dynamically shape shift to fit the view. And if they can, which I am unaware of, they would take up a lot of memory. I suppose a 'cheap' solution would be to make a texture that seems correct from the top but that is bad practice if we want organelle that can float around and pulsate in their hexes.

I just want to confirm if this is a thread for the Art Team to put their graphics into?

No need, I just updated this thread to be an announcement. We'll try and use that as a central hub for our art assets (hence the name).