Descent Was Still Great Though
#8610 posted by
Lunaran on 2015/10/23 07:38:39
Good enough that it even crossed my "try to map for it" threshold.
#8611 posted by
necros on 2015/10/23 14:07:25
I got the level editor with a descent 1 and 2 bundle, but it wasnt as flexible as quake...
#8612 posted by
necros on 2015/10/23 14:10:21
Well that's not quite fair. It's capable of doing cool things but the level of skill required seemed much higher and not worth the effort.
#8616 posted by
- on 2015/10/23 17:39:49
Was Descent's tech mostly 'you can make cube portals, and attach them to other cube portals, and only X can be seen at once' or something like that? Never seen an editor for the game, just remember reading once that it was a very basic portal rendering engine, which is how it did '3d' while really still only being a bunch of 2D shapes data-wise.
#8617 posted by
Lunaran on 2015/10/23 21:20:09
I don't know about portals, but all levels were made of 6-sided cubic volumes, joined by empty coincident faces, which I guess were treated as portals. They could be skewed, tapered, and twisted however you wanted, but your only option was to add a cube. Not many hexagonal rooms in Descent.
It was very much 3D, though, there were no 2.5D shenanigans.
I Command You To Play Undertale
#8618 posted by Toriel on 2015/10/23 21:48:10
#8600.
#8623 posted by
Shambler on 2015/10/24 18:20:12
Nice, only looks like a 10 year old game now. At least the environments have some sort of theme and interest, but Unreal 4 tech my ARSE.
Just because it's UE4 does not mean it has to look like a modern game. That's just the tools that they used to get the job done.
#8625 posted by
JneeraZ on 2015/10/24 20:09:29
I think he means since it's UE4 it should probably look better than it does. Seriously, UE4 does most of the heavy lifting ... it's not that hard.
It looks alright, this is certainly a stylistic choice they have gone with.
#8627 posted by
killpixel on 2015/10/24 20:53:33
I hope the game will have
sweet credits music so I can pour a bowl of cheerios and rock out in my whitey tighties at my desk...
#8630 posted by
JneeraZ on 2015/10/25 10:40:51
For those watching DaZ stream Rebel Galaxy and want to listen to the awesome soundtrack outside the game
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSkh6g5ksvc
Cheers Warren
This soundtrack is great!