totm jun 2013 Rareden's Projects

[Rareden]

I believe it's a reference to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".

i dont see what it has to do with gullies though

[XaTriX]

WOW ! Just discover the first post. Very impressive !!

XaT

[KAO]

please oh please

or perhaps

[Deadweasel]

i dont see what it has to do with gullies though

[zekes]

hey, youve already done one for me, but could you do this?

http://www./download/54g115e9dl6j4x6/Inflexible_Class_Torpedo_Launche.craft

Like this screenshot, but with the cover off, solar panels extended, the hatch cover in front floating off the edge of the screen while a missile inside is firing:

or like this, but from the back looking foreward:

[Sapphire]

please oh please

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or perhaps

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I think I can hear ol' Nic Cage coming!

[Rareden]

I think I can hear ol' Nic Cage coming!

if only i had photoshop on my work computer

[satcharna]

[Tingle]

Wow, those artworks are amazing and make me unbelievably depressed that KSP doesn't look like that. Dammit, really depressed - especially because my PC could actually run KSP looking like that...

[Deadweasel]

Wow, those artworks are amazing and make me unbelievably depressed that KSP doesn't look like that. Dammit, really depressed - especially because my PC could actually run KSP looking like that...

If Squad ever takes on the task of developing a dedicated engine instead of relying on a pre-packaged one-size-fits-all solution like Unity, I'd say KSP would look a lot like that.

Unfortunately, that would mean an almost complete overhaul of the whole game, and that's also assuming that anybody on the dev team even has the skills to develop such an engine. (No slight intended to the devs, but there's a reason that the big AAA games have whole teams of people slaving away for months on-end at top level pay to develop those custom engines.)

[Tingle]

Unity isn't really a problem here, unity offers everything you need to make the game look like that, plus they added new technologies already like procedural terrain that gives the proper LOD at different distances. Squad just needs to create higher resolution textures, continue to redo the planets like they did with the Mun and add more visual eye candy, and the rest is just shaders and FX.

Edit: They would need to expand their team with a dedicated group of talented artists and tech-artists that would work on visual improvements 24/7.

Edited July 30, 2013 by Tingle

[Deadweasel]

Unity isn't really a problem here, unity offers everything you need to make the game look like that, plus they added new technologies already like procedural terrain that gives the proper LOD at different distances. Squad just needs to create higher resolution textures, continue to redo the planets like they did with the Mun and add more visual eye candy, and the rest is just shaders and FX.

Edit: They would need to expand their team with a dedicated group of talented artists and tech-artists that would work on visual improvements 24/7.

Yeah, except they already boosted the texture quality, and look what it's doing to the people who are running it on systems that marginally support it. Let's face it: not everybody has a power machine; the bulk of players are using systems that will barely handle Minecraft, and here comes KSP with the additional load of active realtime physics too.

EDIT: "24/7"? LOL that's something you'll find at one of EA's production houses where deadlines mean millions of dollars. I doubt that's going to happen with a project like KSP where the budget isn't already provided and set in stone by investors and a parent publishing company.

[Tingle]

I didn't really mean 24/7 ^^, I just meant a dedicated team inside the team that does nothing more than visual stuff. Also, you can always have low, mid and high graphic settings.

[Dagg215]

I can imagine the game looking this good in the final release. Beautiful work, you just made my new background.

[Rareden]

uuummm ksp weekly feature!!!

[satcharna]

uuummm ksp weekly feature!!!

Completely deserved.

[bman2232]

Good job. could you possibly make this into a downloadable 'texture' pack for KSP? ID LOVE IT XD XD XD XD XD

[Xmodalloy2]

*jaw drops* These pictures are insanely awesome! +1 awesomite for you!

[Rareden]

Unity isn't really a problem here, unity offers everything you need to make the game look like that, plus they added new technologies already like procedural terrain that gives the proper LOD at different distances. Squad just needs to create higher resolution textures, continue to redo the planets like they did with the Mun and add more visual eye candy, and the rest is just shaders and FX.

Edit: They would need to expand their team with a dedicated group of talented artists and tech-artists that would work on visual improvements 24/7.

one thing that irks me is that they dont have specular maps, that would add greatly to the visual of the game, plus unitys shaders arnt that great atm, you would need to get them near cryengine 3 to make it look similar to this

[Mekan1k]

Rareden...

I want to shake your hand through the internet.

These pictures are too damn good.

[Rareden]

New one is up request from flanders ned, needles_10 is next.

Rareden...

I want to shake your hand through the internet.

These pictures are too damn good.

[czokletmuss]

<creating awesome art>

How come I didn't notice this thread before the KSP Weekly?! You are doing fantastic job, Rareden. If you would like to use some of my spacecraft ("Kadmos", "Proteus"), just say so. Keep up the good work!

[FlandersNed]

New one is up request from flanders ned, needles_10 is next.

It's everything I dreamed of, and more!

Thank you so much!

EDIT: Seeing the Kadmos rendered by Rareden would be a site to behold.

[NeoLegends]

Unity isn't really a problem here, unity offers everything you need to make the game look like that, plus they added new technologies already like procedural terrain that gives the proper LOD at different distances. Squad just needs to create higher resolution textures, continue to redo the planets like they did with the Mun and add more visual eye candy, and the rest is just shaders and FX.

Edit: They would need to expand their team with a dedicated group of talented artists and tech-artists that would work on visual improvements 24/7.

Amen.

Yeah, except they already boosted the texture quality, and look what it's doing to the people who are running it on systems that marginally support it. Let's face it: not everybody has a power machine; the bulk of players are using systems that will barely handle Minecraft, and here comes KSP with the additional load of active realtime physics too.

Graphics are NOT a problem in KSP, 90% of the computers can run KSP just fine, it's the physics that kill most of the user's PCs, not the graphics. My four year old GTX 460 can still run KSP on FHD with maxed out settings at 45FPS (small rocket). And you completely forgot about the existence of graphic settings, Squad could break down the shader and texture complexity as they already do now. There definetely is no barrier in getting some fancy graphics into KSP at the moment, except money and time.

one thing that irks me is that they dont have specular maps, that would add greatly to the visual of the game, plus unitys shaders arnt that great atm, you would need to get them near cryengine 3 to make it look similar to this

They gotta hire some guys from Crytek, no, better, they shall hire YOU.

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Serious now, what's the problem in generating planets with WorldMachine? They should be just fine in KSP, assuming the planets are huge meshes and not procedurally generated at runtime.

Edited July 31, 2013 by NeoLegends

[TheReaper]

BEAUTIFULL! I WANT KSP TO LOOK LÄ°KE THÄ°S BY 1.00 im sure it will be