PotBS Town Revamps!

[Aether]

ArtCo Environment Lead, Nate Lange, has published a new Devlog outlining the improvements made to the Pirates of the Burning Sea town environments!

You can read all about it by visiting this link!

Enjoy, won't you?
Aether

[keline]

looks nice
how old are the current towns?

[kazamx]

Such a fantastic improvement. These towns are fantastic.

I hope I am right in guessing that now you have all these new models and textures available, we will be seeing the slow roll out of improvements to all the older towns?

[Joe]

Originally Posted by kazamx I hope I am right in guessing that now you have all these new models and textures available, we will be seeing the slow roll out of improvements to all the older towns?

That's the plan. We're doing another town in 1.6, and most likely more beyond that.

It will be nice to get the whole game up to the level of quality that the "right before launch" assets have.


Joe

[kazamx]

Originally Posted by Joe That's the plan. We're doing another town in 1.6, and most likely more beyond that. It will be nice to get the whole game up to the level of quality that the "right before launch" assets have. Joe

Any chance your taking a look at the OS after you finish the towns? The new towns have lost that cartoony feel and have a much better ambiance to them. They kind of make the OS look like it needs an upgrade. I understand that would be a HUGE job to do though.

Oh and at some point can I look up?

[Garbad_the_Weak]

Looks great! May I request the next map reworked be the "night stone fort" (I think its Marcicabo one). That one could be really cool.

[Joe]

Originally Posted by kazamx Any chance your taking a look at the OS after you finish the towns? The new towns have lost that cartoony feel and have a much better ambiance to them. They kind of make the OS look like it needs an upgrade. I understand that would be a HUGE job to do though.

That's a big open question around here. We would love to give the open sea a similar treatment, but it's a massive undertaking. Right now all I can say for sure is it may happen someday. (i.e. I can't say anything for sure at all.)

Originally Posted by kazamx Oh and at some point can I look up?

Straight up has lots of problems with the camera clipping into things. 1.5 does include a tuning change that lets you look up slightly, which helps a lot.


Joe

[Alexande]

Hmm, The Padre doth approve of your texturizing.

Please have a contest where I get to present you with a design for a port and win a new vid card.

[TomSavage]

The new military outposts look gorgeous! Really an awesome step in he right direction, good stuff

[Shagalicious]

One question for those people that have just the minimal requirements for vista i had one gig mem and had to upgarde too 2 just so i wouldn't lag?