Terrain Details

can we eat them?
drink them?
they might be ju hua

 

or ressurect

 

I saw that a while ago and for some reason thought it was a Colossus

 

hey I)4rk (i'm pretty sure no one here is named Dark, so that name would be vacant) is it necessary to point this out in the exact same screenshot i posted about this morning?
Thread: Cronic!

 

either would be acceptable but yes, Hadean pointed out the main thing in this thread. i love all your ideas

 

they should have trees that zealots could climb and jump down like flying squriels and decapitate enemy units. . . . just kidding, but yes its very nice and gives it a sense of involving nature into your stratigies.

 

lmao. now we can stomp some doodad.

 

call me crazy but look at the size of the flowers and a colosus .. he dosen't look so "colosus" anymore if a flower goes to the hight of about 1/2 of his legs

 

Warcraft in space. lol

 

**Thread edit**
Merged "Chronic!" and "Flowers". Both threads were concerned with the new level of detail in StarCraft II terrains, so this all-encompassing terrain thread was created.

 

i was just watching the gamplay video, and i noticed at the end, when the mothership was on fire after using black hole, the fire had a defined shadow.

also, with twilight archons, they are big glowing balls, but their armor has perfectly defined shadows. i would think that the ground beneath an archon would glow, rather than have a shadow.

thoughts?

 

Ooooh... Glowing archon ground...
That would be pretty sweet, if done properly. It would definitely make them more "Yea, I'm da shiz" kind of guys.

I don't know about flames having shadows though...

 

but flames have shadows in the gameplay video

 

I thought the archon shadow looked pretty gimp, i didnt really get the sense that he was an archon, more like an unfinished suit of armor

 

Good point on the glowing aura beneath them. I think that would be appropriate. I think a lot of it might have to do with performance/rendering capabilities. I don't know how engines work exactly but I know lighting effects is one of the biggest problems due to how processor hungry it is.

That might be why they just went with a shadow.

 

thats what i was talking about. they shouldnt.

 

True, but the Twilight Archon's flamey thing aren't flames... In fact, they're just concentrated psionic emanations... So they could have shadows, but since none of us really know about psionic emanations, we can't tell. Anywys, my guess would be that they don't necessarily "make" light and diffuse it, but that they just are themselves like... Some sort of ray of light. Not like a bulb or anything... Get me?

Anyways... As I said, none of us are too educated on psi

 

oh, on my last post, i was talking about the flames from the MS when its heavily damaged.

my problem with the archons is there is only the shadow of the armor, so they should a) have the glow, rather than the shadow, or b) have a shadow that includes their whole ball of energy that they are in.

and yes, you are right that we dont know much about psi, but it still just doesnt seem to fit.

 

maybe it's just filler or unpolished right now. Maybe once they have the units and balance worked out they will go back and fix stuff like that.

 

I'm sure they will... I mean, sure you always polish it up when you want to show it around, but when you really want to give a final result, believe me, an artist's work is more complicated than even psi... Back, Forth, Change, Undo, Redo, Restart all over...