JornAggror Blog

The thing that really strikes me about the props in the original is the depth of storytelling that Dave put into the scene.  The barricade on the main road bridge over the river...the desk, lamp, and chair in the guard outpost...the encampment in the garage...empty gun racks in the guard tower.  It all forms an impression without being too explicit about that occurred.  Very impressive.

I hope the final iteration is a bit brighter, unless it looks brighter in-game. That or should be 1:1 with the LE2 version. But overall, amazing work I'm excited to finally be able to play this, I hope this gets released as a template or an open source project. 

Looking forward to see this :-)

On 6/17/2017 at 11:19 AM, reepblue said:

I hope the final iteration is a bit brighter, unless it looks brighter in-game. That or should be 1:1 with the LE2 version. But overall, amazing work I'm excited to finally be able to play this, I hope this gets released as a template or an open source project. 

Those screenshots were just some experimenting with ambient and post effects, and by no means a final result. With Josh's new fog shader and SSAO improvement things are already looking better than in the screenshots above. The main reason for rebuilding it was to give Josh a packed scene where he could really see how a scene with so many props and vegeations would run. 

When you read Josh's blog on shader improvements, this already improves the engine for everyone a lot. That is what this is all about. Apart from that it just looks so awesome and that there could be potential cool mini game be created with this as the start map.

The zone really does have a special place in LE history so it should really be made an official mini game with functionality. Maybe  FPS with some mutant dogs that hunt you down with guns, ammo, and med packs scattered around. The dogs can just randomly spawn every once in awhile near the player.