Greetings and salutations!
This week's screenshot once again shows the main menu--but now with a new backdrop!
The week just past was, for the most part, an art week:
Monday, March 25. 2019
Title Art Reworked
Summary: In which new main-menu art is made; a bug is fixed; and IndieDB is joined.
Greetings and salutations!
This week's screenshot once again shows the main menu--but now with a new backdrop!
The week just past was, for the most part, an art week:
Greetings and salutations!
This week's screenshot once again shows the main menu--but now with a new backdrop!
The week just past was, for the most part, an art week:
As shown above, the main menu has some new background art. And that background was the work to which the majority of the week was given.
It was a tricky piece to put together, as I recall, in composition and colouring. (Which may be one reason that it took nearly all week to reach the point shown above.)
A particular issue was that the orange section originally stood out rather too much, I felt. Next to the various greys and pale browns of the other sections, it was eye-catchingly vibrant.
My solution was to dim much of it.
The scene was originally lit as though most sections were open to the sky, and thus lit by the sun--meaning that there was light on much of the exposed surface area. To dim that bright orange, I changed the lighting such that "interior" sections--which includes the orange one--were instead lit as by the player's lantern-light, thus shadowing much more of them. Furthermore, I introduced the blue shadows used in-game, which not only cooled the orange, I feel, but perhaps also helped to connect the various sections a little more.
I have a few changes that I still want to make to the image as shown above. One of these I simply forgot about before exporting the piece. Others came about thanks to critique given on Twitter, for which I'm grateful. ^_^
One non-art thing done in the week just past was the fixing of a bug in my resolution-setting code. In short, I found that certain sections of code were not being run if at startup the selected resolution was the first in the list. This was likely harmless for the most part--but did result in my main-menu buttons not being placed as intended. The bug should now be fixed, I believe!
And finally, in the week just past I signed up on IndieDB. I now have a page there, as well as entries for both A Door to the Mists and Night River.
If you'd like to visit my page, you should find it here:
https://www.indiedb.com/members/thaumaturge-art
The games themselves should be at these links:
https://www.indiedb.com/games/a-door-to-the-mists
https://www.indiedb.com/games/night-river
(Or by the "games" button on the main member-page, to which I first linked.)
That then is all for this week--stay well, and thank you for reading! ^_^
It was a tricky piece to put together, as I recall, in composition and colouring. (Which may be one reason that it took nearly all week to reach the point shown above.)
A particular issue was that the orange section originally stood out rather too much, I felt. Next to the various greys and pale browns of the other sections, it was eye-catchingly vibrant.
My solution was to dim much of it.
The scene was originally lit as though most sections were open to the sky, and thus lit by the sun--meaning that there was light on much of the exposed surface area. To dim that bright orange, I changed the lighting such that "interior" sections--which includes the orange one--were instead lit as by the player's lantern-light, thus shadowing much more of them. Furthermore, I introduced the blue shadows used in-game, which not only cooled the orange, I feel, but perhaps also helped to connect the various sections a little more.
I have a few changes that I still want to make to the image as shown above. One of these I simply forgot about before exporting the piece. Others came about thanks to critique given on Twitter, for which I'm grateful. ^_^
One non-art thing done in the week just past was the fixing of a bug in my resolution-setting code. In short, I found that certain sections of code were not being run if at startup the selected resolution was the first in the list. This was likely harmless for the most part--but did result in my main-menu buttons not being placed as intended. The bug should now be fixed, I believe!
And finally, in the week just past I signed up on IndieDB. I now have a page there, as well as entries for both A Door to the Mists and Night River.
If you'd like to visit my page, you should find it here:
https://www.indiedb.com/members/thaumaturge-art
The games themselves should be at these links:
https://www.indiedb.com/games/a-door-to-the-mists
https://www.indiedb.com/games/night-river
(Or by the "games" button on the main member-page, to which I first linked.)
That then is all for this week--stay well, and thank you for reading! ^_^
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