First ZRPG screenshot

[Fat Dragon]

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/in ... 204.0.html
Fuck, that's an incredible screenshot! You can clearly see the bad state of decline the zombie apocalypse has caused. Very atmospheric and creepy, A++.

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor]

7/10. What atmosphere? It looks very generic and sterile to me.

 

[ecliptic]

(Humor)

 

[Zed]

SPOOKY SHIT

 

[thesheeep]

I'm starting to take a mild interest in this Torque engine...

But on the pic.. oh well.. it is a well made... standard room.
Not sure why they'd release that pic as the first screenshot.

 

[Luzur]

looks something done in photoshop or a 3D making program.

 

[Kingston]

looks something done in photoshop or a 3D making program.

It does look a bit more like a render than an in-game screenshot.

 

[denizsi]

I love it when hardly anyone has anything to say other than "OWWSUMMM!!!!111". It doesn't look that great. It doesn't even look "good". It doesn't look bad. It looks ok for a contemporary setting. It looks like a render from some Home Decoration Deluxe V2. It can't even constitute a screenshot because the angle is so uncomfortable for a game camera.

I wonder the planned polycount of an average character model. This render suggests, or at leasts ideally requires, pretty good models to match the details of the setting. Also if we are to take this render as a "screenshot", that would suggest either of two things: most everything is static (look at all those shadows), eg. no moving furnitures around for barricading (though I wouldn't expect that level of interactivity from ex-Obsidians. It's obviously not their thing), or dynamic lighting, which doesn't work that good with that version of the Torque Engine as far as I've heard -please correct if I'm wrong-, eg. not much of a hardware-friendly indie game.

 

[thesheeep]

Dynamic lighting isn''t THAT hard to implement. It is a bit complicated and there are many ways of implementing that, but that also means that there is a lot of material online that one can learn or even copy from.
Tough I seriously doubt that the Torque engine has no way of doing that.

But yeah, that is kinda hardware-hungry and it wouldn't be such a great idea to implement that in an indie game. Or at least only optional.

Then again, a variable number of lights is not really the problem, if there are not too many at once. The problem comes with shadow calculation, but again, there are resource saving ways of doing them, even if it doesn't look like those nice soft-shadows in the render-pic.

All in all, this is far too much speculation for my taste so I'll just stop now :D

 

[entertainer]

looks like some shitty render

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

The room itself looks pretty good, but the book covers look very shitty.

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor]

I love it when hardly anyone has anything to say other than "OWWSUMMM!!!!111". It doesn't look that great. It doesn't even look "good". It doesn't look bad. It looks ok for a contemporary setting.

Yep, ITS is starting to look like ESF or the Mount&Blade forum.

 

[denizsi]

But yeah, that is kinda hardware-hungry and it wouldn't be such a great idea to implement that in an indie game. Or at least only optional.

And that's only the point I made.

The room itself looks pretty good, but the book covers look very shitty.

I personally don't like the titles they've chosen to put on shelves. All very dicksmoker stuff, like tolling of some great bells.

I love it when hardly anyone has anything to say other than "OWWSUMMM!!!!111". It doesn't look that great. It doesn't even look "good". It doesn't look bad. It looks ok for a contemporary setting.

Yep, ITS is starting to look like ESF or the Mount&Blade forum.

Shhh, mentioning ESF and ITS in the same sentence summons VD to call bullshit on you and demand links (lol), but oh damn, now that I've done it myself, it may be too late now.

 

[Trash]

Looks sterile as fuck.

 

[Luzur]

I love it when hardly anyone has anything to say other than "OWWSUMMM!!!!111". It doesn't look that great. It doesn't even look "good". It doesn't look bad. It looks ok for a contemporary setting.

Yep, ITS is starting to look like ESF or the Mount&Blade forum.

they have yet to get a Summers as a mod.

 

[denizsi]

But Summers don't grow on trees, you know.

 

[Lesifoere]

I so desperately wish I could be enthusiastic about this. What an unfortunate choice for a first screenshot.

Oh and look at those PCs. Very 1990's.

 

[denizsi]

To be fair, I've been to places that looked exactly like this with such old PCs in Europe. I remember one particular place in the dark basement of a train station where each PC was isolated in a cubicle with curtains and doors and you could easily bring someone down there with you and get on with it while streaming porn online. Oh yeah.

 

[Jasede]

It's not a very good screenshot. As said before it looks sterile and pristine. If you were making Little Big Adventure: The RPG it would be good.

 

[Luzur]

reminded me more of some old point & click game.

 

[Burning Bridges]

I think it looks good. The problem is anyone with some skill can make such a screenshot. It takes a couple of days, at maximum.

 

[CrimsonAngel]

I withhold judgement until i see more.

 

[racofer]

It looks very well detailed. Good job.

 

[Mortmal]

That screenshots as well of the one of cyclopean reminds me of this , http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ozrm ... videogames , http://www.gamekult.com/images/ME0000057663/ , and other "old" ismetric 3D games wich is already a good thing, indie games graphic being superior to a 95 big title is quite rare.
its not very atmospheric and post apocalyptic but what would happen to a library after a zombie apocalypse? theres nothing to loot there and books scares most people(i am an ex teacher , trust me ), the building would be deserted, like usual, but without even the librarian.

 

[Emotional Vampire]

looks like some shitty render