How will graphics look like?

Will the game have a high detail level? like This:
http://666kb.com/i/at05s3ng4acpkvfcu.jpg

Or will it be like this:
https://media.photobucket.com/image/stranded%20II/MetallicLion/screen_00009.jpg

Thrive will be however an amazing game, but it will be greater if it had amazing graphics!

Do you agree?

I doubt it will look like Crysis (but it would be nice..), but I think I can safely say we will not have Stranded 2's graphics (on the release, at first it will probably look even worse).


Nice choice of games, by the way.

I beleive if we work with a clear division between the game's simulation and presentation the graphics engine could be made of such modular nature that constant improvement would be possible.

Commander Keen wrote:

Nice choice of games, by the way.

The best and the worst looking

Gameplay before graphics. We shouldn't get ahead of ourselves.

(I'm thinking we'll eventually look like Crysis too )

Noitulove wrote:

Gameplay before graphics. We shouldn't get ahead of ourselves.

The problem is, 3d graphics have a very difficult sweet spot. It can either be simple and ugly as crap, look good but be laggy (not to mention take ages of coding) or be balanced...

Djohaal wrote:

Noitulove wrote:

Gameplay before graphics. We shouldn't get ahead of ourselves.

The problem is, 3d graphics have a very difficult sweet spot. It can either be simple and ugly as crap, look good but be laggy (not to mention take ages of coding) or be balanced...

I'm thinking we should be balanced, or use a lot of visual trickery to make the game's graphics seem prettier than they actually are, or at least more GPU-consuming. But my previous point still stands (somewhat) that prototypes--one thing we're only working on--are commonly known by their bugginess and simple, minimal graphics. They look like this for a reason. Most of the good stuff is in the programming, and that's what we should focus on first.

But hey, it's still fun to think about what we'll look like in the end. Just not as important as programming. Don't worry, Bashinerox and a few others are working on that.

Also, what you said about "ages of coding" also stands, as it'll take even longer for our prototype to be released if a bunch o' graphics were added on before we could see it.

Noitulove wrote:

Djohaal wrote:

Noitulove wrote:

Gameplay before graphics. We shouldn't get ahead of ourselves.

The problem is, 3d graphics have a very difficult sweet spot. It can either be simple and ugly as crap, look good but be laggy (not to mention take ages of coding) or be balanced...

I'm thinking we should be balanced, or use a lot of visual trickery to make the game's graphics seem prettier than they actually are, or at least more GPU-consuming. But my previous point still stands (somewhat) that prototypes--one thing we're only working on--are commonly known by their bugginess and simple, minimal graphics. They look like this for a reason. Most of the good stuff is in the programming, and that's what we should focus on first.

But hey, it's still fun to think about what we'll look like in the end. Just not as important as programming. Don't worry, Bashinerox and a few others are working on that.

Also, what you said about "ages of coding" also stands, as it'll take even longer for our prototype to be released if a bunch o' graphics were added on before we could see it.

Agreed. On my other post I mentioned that an interesting approach would be keeping the simulation separate from the presentation on the ultimost degree. This would allow for large changes on the graphical engine without having to worry with the game's important code.

Our engine is all modular, so we can tweak graphics code with patches. Players will be able to tweak graphics settings to what suits them best.

~sciocont wrote:

Our engine is all modular, so we can tweak graphics code with patches. Players will be able to tweak graphics settings to what suits them best.

So we will be able to choose good graphics settings or crappy ones, right?

andry796 wrote:

~sciocont wrote:

Our engine is all modular, so we can tweak graphics code with patches. Players will be able to tweak graphics settings to what suits them best.

So we will be able to choose good graphics settings or crappy ones, right?

Yes.
Shortest post ever.

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