[WIP] Precipice

[SnaFuBAR]

Gorgeous. Simply stunning.

[Vadam930]

Very, very nice!

I'm curious. Do you have a description for the map? If not, I may be able to help. =)

EDIT: I bet that comes last, anyway.

[DarkHalo003]

At first I was like:

But now I'm like:

[Siliconmaster]

New update time!

Today's focus has been the banshee pads:

Compare this old render:


to this:






I also turned the skylight waaaay down, so it no longer washes out the shadows from the hard sunlight:


Then I realized the shadows didn't quite line up with the sun ingame. I personally like the shadows, so I tried to move the sun. It refused to budge, so I tried a trick which has worked before- I doubled the sun and tried moving the second one. That failed too, but instead I ended up with something cool- what looks like a normal Halo sun, but when you look directly at it there's an enormous amount of bloom. so BEHOLD, SUNLIGHT:

Overkill? Maybe.

Damned epic? Absolutely. I'm keeping this accidental bit of awesome unless people don't like it.

[n00b1n8R]

How directly do you have to look at the sun for that to kick in?
I could see it getting really annoying when you're trying to shoot a banshee (but then you can see the tactical application of it too )

[Siliconmaster]

Yeah, it's pretty much only straight at it, and a little to either side. And if anything goes across the sun, the flare stops, just like the normal sun flare. Also, the sun is at such an angle that the odds of you flying up in that direction are fairly slim. I'm flying around in circles with the dev cam and the sun really doesn't disrupt sight unless you're midway down the canyon and possibly trying to hit someone on the rim. But in that case it's sort of cool to be blinded by the sun. :P

[POQPrince]

Yeah, it's pretty much only straight at it, and a little to either side. And if anything goes across the sun, the flare stops, just like the normal sun flare. Also, the sun is at an angle that the odds of you flying up in that direction are fairly slim. I'm flying around in circles with the dev cam and the sun really doesn't disrupt sight unless you're midway down the canyon and possibly trying to hit someone on the rim. But in that case it's sort of cool to be blinded by the sun. :P

FANTASTIC!!!

Can't. Wait. Silicon!

[Siliconmaster]

I'll record a short video f me flying around in a banshee tomorrow to show the flare and how big it is. It seems a lot smaller then you're moving around compared to that still image, which was picked for the emphasis on the overepicness.

[staticchanger]

Keep it. No matter what. I think that totally rocks. I'm definitely seeing the tactical application

[Dwood]

I'll record a short video f me flying around in a banshee tomorrow to show the flare and how big it is. It seems a lot smaller then you're moving around compared to that still image, which was picked for the emphasis on the overepicness.

Open Sauce postprocessing + Bloom = ?