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Development Blog #12
🕑 Added 2022-11-23 07:19:38 +0000 UTC
In a scene, be it real life or not, lightning is always the most important factor to determine it's quality, as seen from the renders above. It's hard to master but once achived it's very satistifying. Of course lightning is not everything, heck usually people just don't give a single damn about it but underneath it's actually what makes your renders really shine. I believe many of you played Esra in Istanbul, in office scenes there, I could just illuminate everything with a flat lightning and make everything very visible with no shadows, but it would take away all realism there is to it, it would be less fun and I would no longer enjoy working on such... low quality and garbage product. No, having shadows is the most important thing for me. Shadows give the realism to scenes and most developers aren't aware of this fact. As long as everything is visible, they are fine with it...
Anyway, enough babbling about shadows and lightning. I've noticed having a main menu like in my previous post would be too crazy, I'll change it to a more tame thing, but you will still see the animation in game as part of the story.
Lastly I still don't know having two main projects is a good thing. Many of my patrons can't wait for The Prison Guard's first release but there's also still some of my patrons who just wants Esra's story to continue asap. The Prison Guard was supposed to be a side project but recently I've noticed the huge potential of such setting, already made lots of plans and created a system for it. It just makes me worry about that small amount of my patrons who only cares about one of my projects and not the other. I won't release versions once a year like many devs do but if you only care about one project of mine, unfortunately you'll have to wait for it, unless majority of my patrons will want me to cancel one of the projects, then that's what I'll do...
Comments
Many thanks for the encouraging words :) Your example makes sense, having worked on 2 projects indeed gave me lots of motivation and ideas.
Patrick B
Hi, I'd say just do what YOU feel is the best way to progress! If developing 2 'major' projects simultaniously gives you a good 'creative' vibe or generaly makes you feel good, then why not go for it ? Another Dev recently told me that he needs to take some 'pause' from his main project from time to time, and focus on a side track, to give himself 'maximum creativity'. I for sure will not be pushing to get a new version, I'll rather wait to get maximum quality content once you release it, be it in 1 month or several months, I know it's worth the wait !
