In the hands of a competent dev any renderer/engine can be used to churn out gold.
I think other than custom maps, he is just using the standard version of the BetterRepack of HS2. I think the most impressive part (in terms of visuals) about Eternum is the lighting. Lots of HS2 games lack shadows. I have no idea how Caribdis does it. Unlike Daz, which gives you full control over the lighting because every map starts in pitch black, a lot of HS2 maps have built-in lighting that is very flat. The HDRI in HS2 are also quite bad. I don't know. I have tried to imitate Caribdis' style in my renders but they are nowhere close. Maybe you're right, he is indeed a wizard.
Yea that's what I meant. Fans try to recreate his characters and renders in many threads and most of it (no offense) looks anywhere close to his style. I'm glad he's sticking to it because it's special.
Bruce Lee said:
Oh there are many threads that have done that? I thought I was the only one.
It's more about whether you understand how the lighting works in HS2. In Daz, it's much easier to make artistic renders, if you don't mind the long render time, because the lights behave pretty much the same as in the real world. In HS2, the lights have limited range, so that's something extra to consider if you want to control the softness of the lighting. There is also something called Character Lighting, which essentially makes the characters glow a little bit. You would want to lower that to 0, otherwise the characters would be lighted differently to the other objects in the scene. The shaders on every object in HS2 are also not standardised, which means they are lighted differently anyway, and you can't change that. So while photography knowledge would help set a scene up, it is based on real world lighting, you would get very different results in HS2.
Annie seeing Nova top the Eternum character polls and seeing her name at the bottom.
The quality and texture of the renders are getting better and better each update wow
In all fairness, the competition here is pretty high profile and in other VNs it would very likely be #1.
True. Nancy in the sneak peeks has a hairstyle similar to Luna this time.
Given that Día de los Muertos is coming up in v0.5, I wonder what's going to be in store at the Hernandez family meeting, especially with Luna.
I believe we already went over this like yesterday so I won't say anything.
Just give it a score. What do you think is lacking from the image that would give it a higher score? Speaking with you guys have enlightened me about the lighting in HS2, and already I have made a few changes. A man does not improve if he does not know what he is lacking.
