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Annie seeing Nova top the Eternum character polls and seeing her name at the bottom.
(Don't worry Annie you're still best girl to me DX)
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(Don't worry Annie you're still best girl to me DX)
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The quality and texture of the renders are getting better and better each update wow
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In all fairness, the competition here is pretty high profile and in other VNs it would very likely be #1.
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True. Nancy in the sneak peeks has a hairstyle similar to Luna this time.
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The scene that never was and never will be.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how believeable is it as a Caribdis render?
Jesus, this is like re-learning Daz all over again.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how believeable is it as a Caribdis render?
Jesus, this is like re-learning Daz all over again.
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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.
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I believe we already went over this like yesterday so I won't say anything.
Still, valiant effort!
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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.
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Mind you, I couldn't do anything even close to this. I'm an idiot when it comes to creative tasks. So I'm not sure what kind of authority I'm supposed to have here.
Firstly, the lighting is too bright. It washes out and desaturates the colors and removes a lot of detail. I am aware that the scene is in direct sunlight and probably realistically lit, but it's not always about realism. We had a pool scene in Eternum recently and he strategically placed the characters under an umbrella, probably for just this reason. I feel like the shadows aren't sharp and dark enough, which is probably also realistic, but not aesthetic. It also makes her face in the second picture look rather weird and a bit unattractive, even if the model clearly isn't.
The rest of the model looks mostly fine apart from anti-gravity hair, but that's a thing a lot of artists get wrong, sometimes deliberately so and sometimes because the model doesn't cooperate.
6.5/10
As I said, valiant effort, and I mean that.
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Your authority comes from your eyes. One does not have to be a painter to appreciate paintings. Most of us here aren't artists. I just happen to love to imitate arts, and honestly, all the scenes I have copied from Devil May Cry, Deus Ex, Jojo, and others, make me wonder why they were so magical. Why can't I reproduce the same kind of art? In particular, Deus Ex is like a museum. Every scene is just so heavenly, but I digress.
Yes, I thought that was the case too. I tried to imitate the brightness and the angle of the light from the same scene first chapter of Eternum. I did try to lower the brightness, but that wasn't it. The brightness is about the same, to my eyes at least, but you just mentioned a keyword, saturation. That might just be what the scene needs.
I don't remember such a scene. Was that in chapter 3 or 4? I'll go take a look.
There is nothing realistic about the scene. Trust me. It was lit with a directional light, which is not a good approach for an open area. You should do that with an HDRI instead, but I'm trying to re-create the scene from the first chapter. You are right about the shadows, but that is actually what I'm trying to solve. It doesn't look realistic. The magic of Caribdis is that he is able to make the lighting in HS2 somewhat realistic. It's really hard to do. That's what I'm trying to learn.
I have no control over the hair. It's just one big mesh, so it always stays the same.
But see, thank you, really, for all your inputs. I gave up on HS2 long ago exactly because I couldn't make beautiful renders. Eternum changed my mind so I thought I'd give it another try. Eternum stands out from the rest of the HS2 games because of its lighting, (and of course the story and animations and all that). I'm trying to capture that technique. Let's hope I can do better next time.
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Ok, so it has a lot of room for improvement. Do you have any opinions on how it can be improved?
You may want to ask this in the Development specific forums (https://f95zone.to/categories/development.72/) you are more likely to find help there. We should keep this thread game related.
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Pale Carnations is also very good because of the lighting imo. Many games out there could be miles better if they had better lighting, without it they just look bland.
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Nah you can't remember it either because it was in OIAL and I'm an idiot.
Keep working on it. There's a good and hard earned foundation there.