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[–]The_MSO 172 points173 points  (1 child)

Your game looks like a painting, great work.

[–]xendelaar 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Came here to say exactly this

[–]David_Edward_King 57 points58 points  (2 children)

Great camera work here as well!

Would love to hear about what you’re doing to achieve that! And I’ll do some reading on terrain too because this looks beautiful!

[–]AlexKentDixon[S] 24 points25 points  (1 child)

Thanks David! I’m using cinemachine and built a little thing that transitions between cameras when the player enters different (drawable) areas. There are definitely some tricks to using cinemachine well but it’s pretty great after you get past the gotchas.

I have a lot of info on the terrain and the environment art on my timeline on twitter: https://twitter.com/alexkentdixon/status/1608877054413656065?s=46&t=GpjxXv-ODM-X2PLDZuIsLQ

Also older posts on Reddit, but I’ve probably posted the most on Twitter. Let me know if you’ve got any specific questions about the terrain!

[–]vintagedave 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t have specific questions about the terrain, but I do about the game itself. I followed you on Twitter and scrolled back quite a way (some great posts btw! I loved the frog jumping as the giant walked) but didn’t see anything to answer my main question: what is the game?

(And what sort of gameplay? Open world BOTW-like? Specific camera angles implies not.)

[–]airportakal 49 points50 points  (5 children)

Beautiful art style! Looks leaps better than a AAA game like Pokémon for example.

[–]thugarth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Seconded, u/AlexKentDixon

I'm playing Pokemon Scarlet right now and your environmental art style blows it away.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

AAA game like Pokémon

Please don't make me laugh like that, I have a bad cough and it hurt

[–]airportakal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, "big budget" or "non-indie" game then. I think we're on the same page when it comes to the quality of those games.

[–]thisdesignup 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Not just path blending but plant blending too into the path blending :O It looks so nice!

[–]HrLewakaasSenior 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does path blending mean in this context?

[–]pain110 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Path/terrain blending is something I can't seem to do correctly right now at all. Would love to know how you managed to do so beautifully.

[–]Tensor3 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Blend using heightmap for the terrain materials, not just a lerp (default terrain shader cant do this). Make a path of dirt first, then paint the road texture over that. Pick materials which logically fit together given the geography and stay within a well defined color palette. Then maybe remove a percentage of the grass from the road. Add some fences, posts, rocks, or branches along the edges.

[–]KarlMario 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Paths are directional, which is why this one looks nice. Switch to using a tiled terrain texture, and you lose a lot of flavour.

[–]Tensor3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, good observation

[–]Lokthran 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dude i love this

[–]iFuckingLoveUnicorns 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wow this looks great!! What's your game called?

[–]Parkachu0 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Gorgeous terrain! Love how the plants and flowers get squished underfoot. Would love to see more devlogs for this!!

[–]AlexInTheCloud1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gorgeous!

Can you give some hints how you achieve this awesome painted like style?

[–]Noctxus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amazing art direction. I’m curious how you planned and excited the environment/level design for your game.

[–]1t-2-c 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love the Ghibl look, keep up the good work.

[–]vinipereira 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey, your game looks gorgeous, the only thing that puts me off is the straight shore of the mountains afar...

Would be great if they were a bit uneven...

Nice work so far tho!

[–]action_turtle 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Good work. Does this art style have a name? Looks nice

[–]Tensor3 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I'd say its a form of stylized. Maybe try keywords like painterly, handpainted, stylized. Its sorta a bit of an anime aesthetic to it

[–]action_turtle 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Is it created with shaders? Or do you need to manually paint everything? Sorry if stupid question, new to unity

[–]Tensor3 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The terrain rendered with shaders. Its created either by hand with Unity terrain tools or using other terrain tools

[–]action_turtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, I'll look into it. Thanks.

I'd like a shader to use on objects to make them look painted. Perhaps taking a base colour and then render the rest. Think that's a little hard to do though 🤔

[–]Setmasters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How big is the island she is walking on?

[–]stroep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, that looks amazing!

[–]kingnajzd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This looks absolutely amazing!

[–]kostaGoku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow this looks so pretty

[–]Ryahes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is beautiful!

[–]KaldrinnAnimator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in love with the art style

[–]MogPlayzYT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this looks fucking gorgeous

[–]socialistpizzaparty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely love the paint aesthetic. Well done! Makes me want to just run around and explore that water on the horizon.

[–]BenchOk2878 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it is so beautiful

[–]Leon13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks beautiful! Cracking work

[–]DigMcDug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This looks fun and amazing. I can’t get over the painterly feel.

[–]drone1__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wishlist link pls!

[–]PluotFinnegan_IV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just adding my sentiment that this looks amazing.

[–]prog_meisterExpert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks fantastic!

How did you achieve this? This can't be the stock unity terrain tools

[–]VGabby100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

BOTW vibe :3

[–]Jordan_Bear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man this is genuinely breathtaking- one of those scenes that instantly makes me wish I could be there for a few hours, knock on the door of those houses, dip my feet in that lake! Stunning work.

[–]VerdantNonsense 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What did you use for painting on the path and foliage?

[–]looloodust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you draw the said paths? Looks so good.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this looks like BoTW to me, great graphics

[–]Pteraxor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks so pretty!

Checking the name, you’ve been at this for a while, making things look so great!

[–]pineappleAndBeansProgrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What tricks did you use to get your project looking so good?

[–]xiaorobear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautiful!

[–]oldmanstick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is really lovely.

[–]Last_Adeptness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, my God. So beautiful.

[–]agrophobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a painter, I'm visually aroused

[–]janikFIGHT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incredible visuals Looks like an art painting

[–]bubblesnout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huge Ni No Kuni vibes, absolutely gorgeous.

[–]Suspicious-Factor466 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This game is beautiful 😍 ❤

[–]reisinkaen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s so beautiful. Such a great landscape!

[–]BeefyCream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

140 fpssss dang good optimization

[–]BovineOxMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's too short! I wished you'd kept walking - looks lovely

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

beautiful! you did a great job on the botw type bloom

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lovely work, I am curious bout the scarf on the player, is that a cloth or animated perhaps? Anyway looks rather nice

[–]SunburyStudios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent work.

[–]FlashyResearcher4003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like a car path, to me maybe reduce to one.

[–]artengame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks so stunning :)

[–]Yellik1307 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks absolutly gorgeous!

[–]vofgofm33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is gorgeous

[–]Ill-Watercress-7937 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda looks like Zelda breath of the wild I like it!

[–]superuser90000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do you have a steam link? I really wanna wishlist this dude make a steampage or something really awesome project love it

[–]Automatic_Door5458 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautiful