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Looks great, nice work!

Looks very good.

 

Some critics , you won't escape them

-Are houses just abandonned or wrecked ? because interior are very clean , no dirt, no damage.

- Road texture is too bumpy, not enought flatten normal map to look more road (you could add variation and damage later with incoming LE3 decals)

- Why there is not White lines on the road (perhaps grunge or damage white lines)

- Street corner are very angular

- Bushes on floor looks upscaled with non detailled texture and look very low poly , more polygons ?

 

I know it's prototype, i just pointed some points at first look to make it better.

 

Are houses made of BSP or modeled ?

 

There are great Assets you have here : car, barriers , furniture , it looks great. I like the backpack inventory.

I hope you take this as a compliment when I say that it gives me a bit of SimCity feeling. Great job guys

Do you mean The Sims Roland? If so that was sort of the look we were going for. Just more dirty and grunge like than The Sims

Great for an early prototype, very good looking and smart ideas developed.

congrats

Yes exactly what I meant. The Sims was the name. Good idea to go by

It's fine YouGroove, other peoples opinion is very useful.

 

-Are houses just abandoned or wrecked ? because interior are very clean , no dirt, no damage.

 

I definitely will give all the textures another pass. I'm going for quantity not quality atm. There is also a lot of detail about the game we have not given away yet too, and I don't want the houses looking in too much ruin as they were abandoned not destroyed.

 

- Road texture is too bumpy, not enough flatten normal map to look more road (you could add variation and damage later with incoming LE3 decals).

 

The road texture is painted on via a terrain texture. It's something that will more than likely change when I look into my options.

 

- Why there is not White lines on the road (perhaps grunge or damage white lines)

 

It's only a side street, no lines needed for this road.

 

- Street corner are very angular

 

What I plan to do with the side walk is to create it all in LE and export it out. That way I can redo it in Modo and have the correct scale I need.

 

- Bushes on floor looks up scaled with non detailed texture and look very low poly , more polygons ?

 

I'd probably have to disagree on that one I don't want to go too high for anything other than characters and weapons.

 

Thanks for the feedback all!

Great work. Like the way the inventory works with big items taking more room.

Good luck.

Looking good, I like the way you will be exploring interiors. No doubt there will be the occasional nasty thing in some of the houses.

Great looking project so far!

 

I like the idea, it looks as if Project Zomboid and State of Decay had an awkward relationship with DayZ that resulted in one badass offspring.

 

Looking forward to more progress.

 

Will it be publicly released, or is it more of a closed project to hone both of your skills?

Hi MaybeMe,

 

Thanks for you comments! Love it!

 

We put together a list of requirements we need for a playable prototype for the game. We actually finished this list about a week ago. Looking at what we have accomplished, we came to the conclusion that we need a little more artwork and a few more features before we can let you all have a shot.

 

So, yes we will do a playable prototype to get your valuable feedback and from that we will work out first of all if we have a project that's worth moving forward and if we do, are there any changes? We are really looking forward to this and will keep you updated when we get close.

 

Thanks Again