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| 35s | hello everyone and welcome to another |
| 39s | update with ashes of creation and today |
| 42s | is going to be a special one i am joined |
| 47s | by three amazing artists |
| 50s | uh our lead environment artist tristan |
| 53s | snodgrass hey tristan how you doing |
| 55s | buddy |
| 55s | hello i'm doing very well thank you now |
| 57s | this is is this your first |
| 59s | recording even though you've been with |
| 61s | us you've been with us since the |
| 62s | beginning six years ago almost right |
| 64s | yeah it's been you know since 2016 and i |
| 67s | don't think i've ever actually been on |
| 69s | any of the live streams that's outside |
| 71s | of our our studio tour where i think i |
| 73s | think we had one where you were a |
| 75s | sriracha bottle |
| 77s | for halloween |
| 78s | that's correct |
| 79s | yeah |
| 80s | i've been mostly behind the scenes |
| 82s | behind all the cinematics that's right i |
| 84s | think our community often asks where |
| 86s | nodes three is at because |
| 89s | because one time i remember i was at |
| 91s | that |
| 91s | i was at that we were at that panel at |
| 93s | pax and people were like when's note 3 |
| 95s | coming out i'm like tristan's back at |
| 97s | the studio and he's editing |
| 104s | that's so good we decided to go |
| 105s | different direction |
| 106s | but we'll have notes part four here soon |
| 108s | anyway there you go we're just gonna |
| 109s | skip three |
| 111s | um and then we also have one of our |
| 113s | technical artists our senior technical |
| 115s | artist mr brian ganz |
| 117s | hello everybody hello steven welcome |
| 119s | welcome to the to the show sir this is |
| 121s | also your first time it is |
| 124s | although you have been doing a lot of uh |
| 125s | a lot of work behind the scenes as well |
| 127s | making our world look pretty and |
| 129s | performant and making sure artists have |
| 131s | their tools that they need all the fun |
| 133s | stuff i'm all over the place in this |
| 136s | game running running back and forth |
| 137s | between character environment everything |
| 141s | and then we also have an uh one of our |
| 143s | environment artists mr james is it |
| 146s | kurowski korowski right |
| 148s | yeah it's uh karowski |
| 151s | welcome aboard buddy and you are this is |
| 153s | your first time as well it is my first |
| 155s | time yeah we have a whole new a whole |
| 156s | new crew on the live stream |
| 159s | um and this this video is all about |
| 163s | showcasing |
| 164s | what everybody here is going to see here |
| 166s | is something i don't recall having ever |
| 169s | played a game where this is done do you |
| 171s | have you guys ever played a game that |
| 173s | has had these features we're about to |
| 175s | see |
| 176s | not that i can recall now um i mean i |
| 178s | can't even think of a single player game |
| 179s | that does this that's that's what i was |
| 181s | trying to think of too i was trying to |
| 182s | think of like a single player game that |
| 183s | had done this and i'm sure our community |
| 185s | is going to be like oh you know they had |
| 186s | weather here or there but this is more |
| 188s | than weather |
| 190s | right |
| 191s | yeah i think it's been done |
| 193s | to a much lesser extent elsewhere |
| 196s | i feel like we pushed the envelope quite |
| 198s | a bit here yes and and people actually |
| 200s | so viewing this video people just saw on |
| 202s | stream |
| 203s | the teaser that kind of goes through and |
| 206s | and shows the cinematics in the engine |
| 208s | in the game uh for this area right so |
| 211s | they already know there's some |
| 212s | transitioning here but it's it's really |
| 215s | more than just a transition it is |
| 217s | actually a dynamic season tech that |
| 221s | changes the state of the world across |
| 223s | our biomes um and what biome are we in |
| 225s | right now |
| 226s | we are currently in the riverlands |
| 228s | biology |
| 229s | one of the primary focuses of alpha one |
| 233s | alpha two yeah no that's right it's |
| 234s | actually it's the largest biome in alpha |
| 236s | two right |
| 237s | correct and it's gonna be where like the |
| 239s | main uh kaler uh you know well the sort |
| 242s | of aylin portal exists so |
| 245s | i'm looking at this |
| 248s | this snowy wintry location and even |
| 251s | though we're in the weatherland whether |
| 253s | lands wither lands it's weather and |
| 255s | river |
| 257s | lands even though we're in the |
| 258s | riverlands um that is one of the biomes |
| 261s | that can experience |
| 263s | kind of really traditional season change |
| 265s | like what we're accustomed to right that |
| 267s | people are going to see across all four |
| 268s | seasons |
| 269s | yeah um i mean this is kind of we we |
| 272s | decided to take this to the extremes |
| 275s | so extreme weather you know everywhere |
| 276s | from like harsh snowy blizzard kind of |
| 280s | environment feels to lush green |
| 282s | landscapes so |
| 284s | we decided to tackle the hardest part |
| 285s | first which is making it very very |
| 287s | different between seasons |
| 288s | yeah this is oh by the way i'm playing |
| 290s | avec right now some of you |
| 292s | uh saw the vek of the character creator |
| 294s | but haven't seen it yet in game uh this |
| 297s | guy is just wanting to experience the |
| 300s | amazing immersive world that you guys |
| 302s | have have created here |
| 304s | um okay so we are we are in the |
| 306s | riverlands and we are currently in the |
| 308s | winter season so we have obviously a |
| 311s | couple things going on here we have the |
| 312s | landscape itself the the environment |
| 315s | itself has changed where there's no |
| 317s | leaves that are on the trees there's |
| 319s | snow that's piling up on the rocks um |
| 322s | the ground i mean go over what kind of |
| 324s | what you have to do to transition |
| 326s | a biome like the riverlands into a |
| 329s | winter season |
| 332s | so it's the terrain materials and uh |
| 335s | you know there's many many materials |
| 336s | that can apply to the terrain and each |
| 338s | one |
| 339s | you know accept snow at a different rate |
| 341s | of different intensity and uh there's |
| 343s | the assets that all get kind of the same |
| 345s | material function that applies snow to |
| 347s | the tops of them |
| 349s | there's the particle effect that moves |
| 351s | with the player camera that |
| 353s | handles both snow and rain and any kind |
| 355s | of precipitation |
| 356s | there's the volume fog that just went |
| 358s | away as we saw as it cleared up |
| 360s | the volumetric cloud in the sky has a |
| 363s | material that needs to respond to season |
| 365s | changes and weather changes |
| 367s | uh there's a win back i'm making i could |
| 369s | keep going for a while |
| 371s | there's a lot |
| 373s | suffice to say there's a lot of stuff |
| 375s | that goes into changing a region of the |
| 378s | world |
| 379s | into is that a little bit of thunder |
| 381s | oh oh take a moment and just uh enjoy |
| 383s | the view oh is this okay so right now |
| 386s | we're transitioning into like a storm as |
| 389s | well as the climate this has been kind |
| 391s | of sped up right for to showcase the |
| 393s | different season transitions correct yes |
| 396s | so right now we're getting some rain |
| 397s | which will usher in springtime and so |
| 400s | you'll see all the flora that's growing |
| 401s | up right now to the ground where did the |
| 403s | sun go snow's gone |
| 406s | no snow this is unbelievable and now |
| 408s | we've added some additional particle |
| 409s | effects with the with the |
| 411s | um |
| 412s | uh the butterflies and the bees and the |
| 414s | insects |
| 416s | yep |
| 417s | and in addition it's like the all the |
| 419s | leaves now have grown on there's a bunch |
| 421s | of flowers that are present james talk |
| 423s | to me a little bit about |
| 425s | kind of how you're determining the |
| 426s | flowers that are appropriate for each |
| 428s | season |
| 429s | yeah um so |
| 431s | one of the hardest things for setting |
| 432s | this up was |
| 433s | essentially making four biomes and one |
| 436s | every season and um we kind of started |
| 439s | with |
| 440s | whales as like a reference point |
| 442s | my home my home country |
| 445s | not whales whales but the country whales |
| 447s | yeah country whales oh i thought well |
| 449s | technically both are both are relevant |
| 451s | to you tristan because not only uh |
| 454s | are you our lead environment artist but |
| 455s | you also are a very avid professional |
| 458s | environment film guy right you i've seen |
| 460s | some of your stuff as unbelievable |
| 463s | yeah um uh outside of this kind of stuff |
| 465s | i tend to uh spend my time filming |
| 467s | nature so it's kind of appropriate how |
| 469s | often how often do you give that to the |
| 471s | environment team as reference material |
| 473s | uh not often yet but i'll be visiting |
| 475s | wales next week so i'll be taking plenty |
| 477s | of |
| 478s | this is no joke tristan got right up |
| 481s | into the eyeball of this giant whale |
| 483s | it's staring right into the camera it |
| 484s | was so cool dude that was that was very |
| 486s | crazy okay i've noticed that the that |
| 488s | the |
| 489s | animals have changed the ambient sound |
| 491s | has changed and kat |
| 493s | uh has done an amazing job with the |
| 495s | ambience and in the riverlands biome it |
| 497s | is i feel like i am here and not only |
| 499s | that but also kept it adaptive for the |
| 502s | seasonal changes as well right |
| 504s | yeah um i think we also actually missed |
| 506s | the winter bear back in the day or back |
| 508s | in the winters at the biome but that's |
| 509s | okay we can we'll see another one |
| 511s | there's more yeah |
| 513s | but |
| 514s | yeah um james sorry i think we kind of |
| 516s | cut you off no that's cool |
| 518s | if you want to continue uh talking about |
| 520s | how you went about |
| 521s | the art process for this |
| 523s | oh yeah no it's just you know iterative |
| 525s | like all art is and uh |
| 527s | you know how one of our really great |
| 529s | environment artists and myself kind of |
| 532s | worked really closely together to try to |
| 534s | homogenize everything for the seasons um |
| 538s | and |
| 540s | there's not much else to say it kind of |
| 541s | you can see it |
| 543s | that's true did the flowers bloom at a |
| 546s | particular |
| 547s | time yeah |
| 548s | no um yeah all the flowers will you know |
| 551s | decay and die in the fall and turn |
| 553s | colors and |
| 554s | even the animals like karen right there |
| 556s | will shift based on the time of the year |
| 559s | i love the glow on the carrots antlers |
| 562s | good job yeah let's go some movies in |
| 565s | oh it looks great |
| 568s | yeah we'll see that karen change in real |
| 570s | time later on that's right so so part of |
| 572s | you know the relevance of this you know |
| 574s | not just from a beautiful aesthetic |
| 577s | perspective here |
| 578s | but |
| 579s | what makes it so unique is the dynamic |
| 582s | element of these |
| 584s | seasons and the weather systems |
| 587s | changing to the behavior actions of the |
| 589s | player right so |
| 591s | you know part of the triggers that can |
| 593s | create seasonal change is not just time |
| 596s | related for each of our biomes but they |
| 598s | are also indicated by events that occur |
| 601s | on the server whether that be certain |
| 603s | raid bosses forming or |
| 605s | a relic being acquired by a particular |
| 609s | node and being activated |
| 611s | to change potentially the weather out of |
| 614s | a winter state into a spring state and |
| 616s | the reason why a node might have |
| 618s | interest in doing that of course is |
| 619s | because |
| 621s | weather and and the seasons also affect |
| 625s | skills and abilities they affect crops |
| 628s | and gatherables |
| 629s | vehicles and mounts ships creatures and |
| 633s | loot tables change their behaviors might |
| 635s | change |
| 636s | resistances and weaknesses or |
| 639s | or synergies might be relevant in |
| 641s | certain seasons or weather systems |
| 644s | targeting might change the aoe radius |
| 646s | might grow for a fire effect if you're |
| 648s | in the middle of summer or it might |
| 650s | shrink if you're in the middle of a |
| 651s | storm |
| 652s | um |
| 653s | you know the |
| 655s | there's so much that goes into |
| 657s | this system and that's why you guys |
| 659s | really spent a lot of time |
| 661s | making sure |
| 663s | that |
| 664s | the environment reflects both at the |
| 667s | quality we want and isn't just kind of |
| 668s | an afterthought weather system because a |
| 670s | lot of games that i've played you know |
| 672s | you get just the visual effects kind of |
| 674s | playing and you get some rain or you get |
| 675s | some snow |
| 676s | but |
| 677s | what what we've seen here in that |
| 679s | transition from winter to |
| 681s | to spring was significant and it |
| 683s | persists and each of these zones exists |
| 686s | in these different states at different |
| 687s | times across different servers i saw |
| 689s | those those birds just fly by and it |
| 691s | scared the crap out of me it was like |
| 693s | what was that you didn't expect that um |
| 695s | yeah i mean this is definitely one of |
| 697s | the more traditional weather biomes i |
| 699s | guess you could say in terms of seasons |
| 701s | but we will be taking things a little |
| 703s | weird with some of the other biomes as |
| 704s | well |
| 705s | um all right here you're gonna see yeah |
| 707s | i think there's fall coming yeah it's |
| 709s | shifting the phone oh i see the leaves |
| 711s | starting to spawn oh my gosh and the |
| 714s | little dust devil oh that looks great |
| 718s | oh boy |
| 719s | oh i love it |
| 722s | wow look at the color |
| 724s | that's my favorite part about everything |
| 726s | is just the colors |
| 727s | it was really hard to nail down the |
| 729s | color change but i think we pulled it |
| 731s | off yeah |
| 733s | i think you guys more than pulled it off |
| 736s | yeah even internally like when we showed |
| 738s | a very early version of this uh to the |
| 740s | entire company but it was maybe like |
| 742s | three weeks four weeks ago there was |
| 744s | people that were like crying |
| 746s | yeah that i i mean i'm watching the |
| 748s | updates every week every day actually |
| 750s | yeah |
| 752s | and i just keep getting like |
| 754s | goosebumps watching this thinking and |
| 757s | again just to reiterate these trends and |
| 759s | i'm sure i've already said this on the |
| 760s | stream which is tomorrow um but these |
| 763s | transitions are sped up |
| 765s | in order to demonstrate you know what |
| 768s | that move for the world looks like but |
| 771s | ultimately these seasons exist on a |
| 773s | weekly basis unless they're event driven |
| 775s | or have other triggers right they might |
| 777s | last longer if you don't deal with the |
| 779s | dragon or if you d or if you keep that |
| 781s | relic active um |
| 784s | but these these on a cycle on a cyclical |
| 787s | perspective as a normal season |
| 789s | transition might be exist within a one |
| 791s | week time frame right and then it |
| 794s | transitions over a period of hours |
| 797s | um |
| 798s | but right now you're seeing it sped up |
| 799s | over the course of 30 seconds |
| 802s | uh yeah correct um i mean |
| 805s | in real time it's going to be almost |
| 807s | unnoticeable to the naked eye you know |
| 809s | like |
| 809s | kind of naturally how it is in real life |
| 812s | we're not going to do it over the course |
| 814s | of the year of course but you know |
| 816s | a couple hours maybe half a day oh is |
| 817s | that a dragon yeah it is a dragon |
| 820s | you might want to take it which boss is |
| 822s | that oh man it's starting to snow |
| 825s | are you dragging but yeah |
| 827s | oh look at so i love that |
| 829s | so the weather events will usher in the |
| 832s | different seasons as well so you'll |
| 833s | you'll know when the new season is going |
| 835s | to change |
| 836s | um just based on the weather that's |
| 838s | happening but |
| 840s | to the naked eye you're not really going |
| 841s | to see it happening this quickly |
| 843s | obviously this is just a |
| 845s | a very |
| 846s | visual demonstration of what's available |
| 849s | and how we can work with it |
| 850s | oh my gosh this is beautiful there's the |
| 853s | bears |
| 854s | the |
| 855s | bears oh that guy's probably cold right |
| 858s | now |
| 858s | yeah he's no he's out of here |
| 861s | i love the i love uh the dirty coat |
| 863s | underneath the beer |
| 865s | it sells it so good |
| 867s | they're currently planning with weather |
| 868s | to |
| 869s | have like rain and snow be kind of a |
| 872s | thing where it snows more often in the |
| 874s | winter and |
| 875s | you know rains more often in the winter |
| 877s | and some other places and uh basically |
| 880s | leveraging some of the new |
| 881s | features of unreal engine like |
| 884s | the being able to sample the global |
| 885s | distance field in the material to be |
| 887s | able to have the snow accumulate in the |
| 890s | crevices of objects as you know as the |
| 893s | summer as summer comes on and melts away |
| 895s | the snow it melts and the crevices last |
| 897s | or if it starts to snow |
| 899s | then it kind of accumulates in the you |
| 901s | know outer areas first and the climate |
| 903s | is filling later |
| 905s | kind of thing |
| 906s | or even saturates the |
| 908s | earth while it melts |
| 910s | right it's so |
| 912s | oh this looks great and it looks like |
| 913s | though even the ground is getting wet |
| 917s | i can hear the footsteps change to the |
| 919s | water |
| 920s | that's so good |
| 922s | yeah well i mean one of the things that |
| 923s | makes like you know a world come alive |
| 925s | it's not just did the wind pick up in |
| 927s | the storm it did my hat is going crazy |
| 932s | but yeah you know like all the elements |
| 933s | coming together really sell it like you |
| 935s | know you can take away one of the things |
| 936s | and everything just kind of falls apart |
| 938s | like no wind the life or the environment |
| 941s | just doesn't feel alive but you know add |
| 944s | some wind and suddenly everything comes |
| 946s | to life |
| 947s | oh this is beautiful guys |
| 950s | yeah this is unbelievable one of the |
| 952s | things that is huge about the season |
| 955s | system and how it affects crops and and |
| 957s | the gatherables in the game |
| 959s | is the impact it will have on the |
| 961s | economy |
| 962s | right |
| 963s | when a particular area no longer is |
| 966s | capable for a week's period of time or |
| 968s | even potentially longer |
| 970s | of producing a certain type of crop or |
| 972s | harvestable and that has to change |
| 975s | across the world regionally now the |
| 978s | transit system of those materials of |
| 980s | those gatherables |
| 982s | they become more relevant and they're |
| 984s | subject to potential risk |
| 986s | and the prices might go up in certain |
| 988s | areas it is something that is actually |
| 991s | very instrumental in the overall design |
| 993s | of the economy in the game speaking of |
| 995s | economy are those two merchant ships |
| 997s | yeah i mean who knows like maybe the |
| 999s | straight opens up and suddenly they're |
| 1000s | able to |
| 1002s | transport goods a little faster right |
| 1004s | we're playing with the idea of freezing |
| 1005s | over rivers and things but the |
| 1007s | implications |
| 1008s | it opens up a lot of candle worms like |
| 1010s | someone could get trapped under the ice |
| 1012s | we'll figure it out if it's possible i |
| 1014s | think you should trap them yeah |
| 1016s | or or even also something that's very |
| 1018s | easily done that we've talked about |
| 1020s | since 2017 and such a big component of |
| 1023s | this system coming to life and seeing it |
| 1024s | at the quality bar that it's at i mean |
| 1027s | like again i i say this i haven't seen |
| 1029s | this really in any other game let alone |
| 1032s | mmorpg |
| 1034s | where |
| 1035s | seasons impact so much of the design and |
| 1038s | part of that also again on the economy |
| 1040s | front is you might have a mountain pass |
| 1042s | and during winter that mountain pass is |
| 1044s | always closed and so the trade routes on |
| 1047s | land change with caravans |
| 1049s | and that's something that |
| 1051s | can not only exist on a cyclical level |
| 1054s | but also dynamically based on player |
| 1055s | activity um i mean that that is a very |
| 1059s | big difference you know can i play with |
| 1061s | the win can i help those ships out a |
| 1063s | little bit |
| 1064s | yeah i mean |
| 1065s | we definitely gave steven some uh god |
| 1068s | mode controls here to demonstrate some |
| 1070s | more of the systems in a more dynamic |
| 1072s | real-time way |
| 1076s | let there be rain |
| 1081s | look at this this is great i love how |
| 1083s | the distance visibility changes and the |
| 1086s | night |
| 1087s | the kind of overhead cast comes online |
| 1091s | yep you're gonna sink the boats with all |
| 1093s | that water i know oh yeah i forgot my |
| 1095s | bad guys |
| 1096s | oh no no it's good they needed the fresh |
| 1097s | water anyway |
| 1099s | oh can i play let me dial up the wind a |
| 1101s | little bit make it a little bit crazier |
| 1105s | oh i love the grass movement |
| 1109s | this is crazy look at my hair |
| 1112s | my hat is going wild |
| 1114s | i love the cloth physics too |
| 1117s | when the rain dies down when the sun |
| 1118s | hits the grass when it's windy it looks |
| 1120s | really cool let me do that i have i have |
| 1124s | some god controls that they gave me for |
| 1125s | this demonstration so let me turn the |
| 1128s | rain off |
| 1130s | and turn on maybe the wind by itself |
| 1134s | there you go |
| 1136s | oh look at the like wave movement across |
| 1139s | the grass how did you get that to occur |
| 1142s | so there's a noise function |
| 1145s | that we we've got at both materials and |
| 1147s | in blueprints so that eventually it |
| 1149s | needs to be converted to c plus plus |
| 1150s | because it's like 300 times faster when |
| 1152s | it goes in the super plus but |
| 1154s | basically the same function is |
| 1156s | duplicated in two places so we have it |
| 1157s | in the materials that |
| 1160s | generates the noise in ripple that goes |
| 1162s | across the player |
| 1163s | and in the program the cpu side of |
| 1166s | things the very the value of the wind at |
| 1169s | the player location gets sent to the |
| 1171s | audio system so the wind picks up in |
| 1174s | audio uh as a wave of |
| 1176s | uh snow or a wave of uh wins passes by |
| 1179s | the player |
| 1180s | i'm just going through i'm going through |
| 1182s | the seasons like that i just did a quick |
| 1184s | transition for the for the audience to |
| 1186s | see how much control i have right now |
| 1190s | yeah so we gave steven a sped up |
| 1192s | timeline of the ability to forward and |
| 1194s | also reverse seasons we want to you know |
| 1196s | get a little crazy with it but oh yeah i |
| 1198s | see that so you can go from |
| 1202s | i could pause it yep |
| 1206s | i love the winter feel we should check |
| 1209s | out i put some snow on |
| 1211s | wait for it |
| 1213s | let's see some snow |
| 1214s | oh yeah |
| 1216s | oh again look at that i love the fog and |
| 1218s | the effects now start kicking off the |
| 1220s | ground oh yeah so everything's built |
| 1222s | into the system and with the sense that |
| 1224s | like |
| 1226s | they can change dynamically like yeah |
| 1227s | you're not gonna get that guess the wind |
| 1229s | uh in certain locations when you know |
| 1232s | it's summer but when it's winter it |
| 1234s | kicks in oh sh we should watch this |
| 1236s | kieran real quick can we do that so go |
| 1238s | into the ones actually turn around and |
| 1240s | get the view in the background i think |
| 1242s | yeah follow up some of the ones down |
| 1243s | there let me go see these guys |
| 1246s | hopefully they they play next karen |
| 1250s | they're little friends there they are |
| 1253s | all right i need you guys in the shot i |
| 1254s | need you guys to step over here |
| 1257s | i just hey can you move to the left |
| 1258s | please we need a feeding system where |
| 1260s | you can just like walk up and like hold |
| 1262s | out your hand or some type of husbandry |
| 1264s | where i could make my own that's right |
| 1266s | there we go he listened it just took him |
| 1267s | a second |
| 1268s | yes all right |
| 1270s | did a great job on those guys |
| 1272s | these are fantastic models watch the |
| 1274s | cure and change |
| 1276s | oh |
| 1278s | look at them |
| 1279s | they changed with the seasons that was |
| 1282s | fun for me to figure out oh yeah oh that |
| 1285s | looks so good james |
| 1287s | and see like you know in our original |
| 1289s | cinematic that i believe we've shown or |
| 1292s | we will be showing during the live |
| 1294s | stream like where we |
| 1295s | you know talked about seasons in our |
| 1297s | kickstarter |
| 1298s | yes those were just dissolves between |
| 1300s | environments that we did in |
| 1301s | post-production and sure people think |
| 1303s | we're doing the same thing in our new |
| 1304s | cinematic but you know no it's actually |
| 1306s | happening in real time there's no |
| 1307s | trickery no figuring it's all yeah this |
| 1309s | is all |
| 1310s | authentic beautiful and authentic i love |
| 1313s | it |
| 1315s | this is the major leagues now heck yeah |
| 1318s | i love it um |
| 1319s | okay tell me a little bit about |
| 1322s | the um |
| 1324s | the weather effects and i know that the |
| 1326s | effects team isn't here right now but we |
| 1327s | might be getting some insight to their |
| 1331s | their work next month maybe on stream |
| 1333s | we'll see um |
| 1335s | but you also have the the effects |
| 1337s | interacting with the environment like i |
| 1339s | was seeing some streams of |
| 1341s | rain that was coming down that adrian |
| 1343s | did some work on um on some of the pork |
| 1345s | calluses |
| 1347s | yeah there's a individual particle |
| 1349s | effects that can be placed on some of |
| 1350s | these assets that kind of responds to |
| 1352s | changes in weather that look like you |
| 1355s | know rain collecting in areas or uh like |
| 1357s | sheeting off of |
| 1359s | flat surfaces if you go underneath like |
| 1361s | a tunnel or something to see it dripping |
| 1363s | more intensely |
| 1365s | i think we'll have a tool to auto place |
| 1366s | that but uh |
| 1368s | worst case we can have it be hand placed |
| 1372s | yeah it looks pretty cool |
| 1374s | same thing with the dust devils the |
| 1376s | butterflies the bees |
| 1378s | the leaves |
| 1382s | playing with this wind a little bit i |
| 1384s | love the tree movement too |
| 1386s | you know it's it's so funny and a lot of |
| 1388s | the games that i played |
| 1390s | the wind effects can either look really |
| 1392s | really good |
| 1394s | or they can look really really bad |
| 1397s | and usually not much in between but but |
| 1400s | i like how our trees you have this |
| 1402s | variance and movement from the trunk |
| 1404s | itself |
| 1406s | to the leaves |
| 1408s | how do you guys do that |
| 1410s | we actually had to home roll our own |
| 1412s | solutions so |
| 1414s | the trees were made in a program called |
| 1416s | speed tree |
| 1417s | and we had a little bit of trouble |
| 1419s | getting the |
| 1421s | speed tree nodes and the materials for |
| 1423s | the trees to function correctly so we |
| 1425s | just made our own version of wind for |
| 1426s | now |
| 1428s | but yeah we just kind of take the tree |
| 1430s | position and |
| 1432s | a lot of information about the tree is |
| 1433s | encoded to the |
| 1435s | uh uv coordinates there's about seven or |
| 1438s | eight |
| 1439s | uv coordinate spaces |
| 1441s | uh and each one has like you know is it |
| 1443s | a leaf is it a frond or branch how far |
| 1445s | down the branch is it and we just use |
| 1447s | that data to drive a bunch of rotations |
| 1451s | some of the information encoded in the |
| 1452s | uv coordinates is |
| 1454s | what's the pivot point of this branch so |
| 1456s | i just kind of rotate around that branch |
| 1459s | yeah that looks great |
| 1462s | that works really looks really cool |
| 1465s | i love that and then there another thing |
| 1466s | we're talking about was |
| 1469s | having like wetness effects and snow |
| 1472s | pile up on |
| 1474s | you know rocks and buildings and stuff |
| 1476s | that's one thing we're doing for |
| 1478s | wetness with the terrain if you look at |
| 1480s | the dirt path as it gets wetter and i'm |
| 1483s | not sure invisible this is because it |
| 1484s | also gets cloudy dark and maybe they can |
| 1487s | stream compression but as it gets wet |
| 1489s | we use the height element of the terrain |
| 1492s | materials to figure out where puddles |
| 1493s | should form |
| 1495s | and |
| 1496s | it should we should be able to see it it |
| 1498s | doesn't do it so much on a slope so |
| 1501s | it might look more visible on a flat |
| 1503s | train there we go right here |
| 1506s | at the lower areas of the terrain height |
| 1508s | it gets kind of glossy like puddles |
| 1512s | oh that looks great |
| 1513s | and a similar thing for snow as the snow |
| 1517s | is melting it it evaporates so it is |
| 1520s | removed from the areas of |
| 1522s | where there's high material ambient |
| 1524s | occlusion |
| 1526s | and it removes it from the high |
| 1527s | immediate inclusion places |
| 1529s | last |
| 1530s | very cool that's amazing |
| 1533s | um let me switch to snow i want to i |
| 1536s | want to talk a little bit about the |
| 1538s | building thing here hold on yeah so i |
| 1541s | was going to say we also had our other |
| 1542s | artists working on some modular sets and |
| 1545s | various things that we can use to |
| 1547s | construct a lot of the ancient ruins of |
| 1548s | the ayla race |
| 1550s | that were once here in |
| 1553s | vera before the |
| 1555s | how would you describe it the event |
| 1557s | where everyone left the |
| 1559s | uh exodus the apocalypse the end of the |
| 1563s | world |
| 1564s | yep |
| 1565s | wait hold on wait a minute |
| 1567s | what is this oh this is an example of |
| 1569s | like obstructions |
| 1571s | yeah so and then design you might not be |
| 1573s | able to access certain areas and wait |
| 1575s | but there's something there open |
| 1578s | open for me i command you |
| 1582s | you might want to oh yeah |
| 1589s | i don't know what is going on |
| 1592s | wait a minute |
| 1594s | i don't even know if i want to go in |
| 1595s | there to be fair |
| 1597s | hold on you might have to change the |
| 1599s | weather here we might need to wait |
| 1601s | reveal yourself snow i command you to |
| 1604s | stop |
| 1607s | i feel like there is sometimes during |
| 1609s | certain seasons what is that oh |
| 1611s | oh my god oh it's a sandal |
| 1617s | yes |
| 1619s | that is so awesome who did put that in |
| 1621s | there |
| 1622s | yeah that was done by our amazing uh |
| 1624s | artist how she uh |
| 1628s | nice little inscribed desk there that is |
| 1630s | so cool |
| 1632s | oh that's |
| 1633s | that is steven's sandal i think i'm sure |
| 1635s | we're gonna auction off like your |
| 1637s | sandals i found i found my sandal |
| 1640s | but to be fair it's missing oh is it is |
| 1642s | there another one there's there's two |
| 1644s | the sandals come in pairs so wait a |
| 1645s | minute |
| 1646s | i assume there's some uh mantle where is |
| 1649s | this |
| 1651s | where is this other oh can i man can is |
| 1653s | this like a little uh a little |
| 1655s | uh jump puzzle jump little jump puzzle |
| 1657s | for you little jump puzzle all right |
| 1658s | let's see if i can do this |
| 1662s | let me up |
| 1664s | let me up sir |
| 1665s | it's just a bit of parkour so oh there |
| 1667s | we go okay do i like jump across this |
| 1670s | way |
| 1671s | oh no i think it's your left there you |
| 1673s | can get it either way there's always oh |
| 1675s | my god oh just barely |
| 1678s | a small heart attack scared of my teeth |
| 1680s | let me up here |
| 1682s | oh there's stairs that's dark i can't |
| 1684s | see oh there's a little darker in there |
| 1686s | it's getting good yeah okay |
| 1688s | lumen's kicking i found it |
| 1691s | i think i have found it |
| 1693s | oh there you go |
| 1695s | my other sandal collector's editions yes |
| 1698s | i love it that is so cool that is |
| 1701s | awesome |
| 1702s | well i have to say |
| 1705s | back when we talked about |
| 1707s | seasonal changes and |
| 1709s | weather systems |
| 1711s | and all of these things being |
| 1713s | interconnected with with design elements |
| 1716s | and systems in the game |
| 1719s | i |
| 1720s | remember that we showed off the kind of |
| 1722s | you know very early prototyping that we |
| 1724s | were doing back in like 2017 and we |
| 1726s | probably actually just showed that on |
| 1727s | the stream lol |
| 1729s | but |
| 1730s | um |
| 1732s | i |
| 1733s | i never thought that it would come to |
| 1734s | this level of quality |
| 1737s | yeah in fact when i first kind of faked |
| 1740s | this kind of seasonal attack |
| 1743s | back before the kickstarter even |
| 1744s | happened i think i was |
| 1746s | a little intimidated to myself right |
| 1748s | yeah the prototype that we that we did |
| 1750s | like that was |
| 1752s | there were significant challenges of |
| 1754s | making that possible but this |
| 1757s | is next level oh yeah |
| 1760s | yeah yeah big shout out to uh james and |
| 1763s | hal and brian for cranking out all the |
| 1765s | biome stuff and then |
| 1767s | brandon and adam for cranking out these |
| 1770s | amazing ruins uh scott for the new trees |
| 1773s | too scott scott allen our new foliage |
| 1776s | go-to guy is the one that cranked up |
| 1778s | some of these pretty epic uh ash streets |
| 1781s | yes those bugs |
| 1783s | don't mind my god powers i have god |
| 1785s | powers this is not powers you will have |
| 1787s | players this is just what i can do |
| 1789s | and also not to uh forget uh hans our |
| 1792s | new |
| 1793s | landscape master he's uh took a swing at |
| 1796s | this landscape for us and did us some of |
| 1798s | the epic views so |
| 1800s | all around an amazing job by everybody |
| 1803s | yeah we were we were all pretty |
| 1804s | intimidated when we were having the |
| 1805s | initial meetings to start working on |
| 1808s | this but |
| 1809s | everyone pulled together and |
| 1812s | you guys really are dynamite team |
| 1814s | you guys have done a tremendous a |
| 1816s | phenomenal job i think the community |
| 1818s | will let you hear this in chat |
| 1821s | that this is a next level presentation |
| 1824s | for seasons of weather and for an |
| 1826s | environment really in an mmo that i've |
| 1828s | ever seen and not to forget of course |
| 1830s | like you know that's not just us but |
| 1831s | also you know the entire effects team |
| 1834s | our new audio artist uh cat and |
| 1837s | you know the character team for getting |
| 1839s | that cloth physics and all the other |
| 1840s | goodness going |
| 1842s | and and and this is a work in progress |
| 1844s | still this is this is nowhere near |
| 1846s | complete this is actually still the |
| 1848s | great thing about our development that i |
| 1850s | that i personally love is that we invite |
| 1852s | the community to watch right and over |
| 1854s | the years |
| 1856s | they can go back and they can look on |
| 1857s | our youtube and they can see the quality |
| 1859s | of art continue to improve |
| 1862s | over time right and that's the cool |
| 1864s | thing about art is that it's never |
| 1866s | really finished like there is always |
| 1869s | elements you will be tweaking and you |
| 1871s | will be touching up and you will be |
| 1873s | taking second third fourth tenth passes |
| 1875s | on even as the game launches and we go |
| 1877s | through expansions like these are things |
| 1880s | that that art continually to improves |
| 1882s | upon uses new technologies for i mean |
| 1884s | that's |
| 1885s | you guys are the masters of the visuals |
| 1887s | here |
| 1888s | yeah my favorite thing is |
| 1891s | go ahead okay so like many heads are |
| 1894s | better than one a lot of people are |
| 1895s | gonna see this and they'll be like wow |
| 1896s | this one looks great but it could be |
| 1898s | maybe slightly better in this area |
| 1900s | they'll have a screenshot or video to |
| 1901s | show us you know i've talked a different |
| 1903s | way to look at it and |
| 1904s | just leverage the hive mind of all of |
| 1906s | humanity when we're doing this and we're |
| 1907s | just getting the best of everything |
| 1909s | that's right |
| 1910s | i like that |
| 1912s | that's very cool |
| 1914s | well we are going to go back to stream |
| 1916s | but everybody uh i hope that you enjoyed |
| 1918s | this video you enjoyed this presentation |
| 1920s | the best is still yet to come because |
| 1922s | this is stuff that we are constantly |
| 1923s | working on as we said and we have some |
| 1925s | amazing artists at intrepid and by the |
| 1927s | way we are hiring so if you have any |
| 1930s | favorite devs or projects out there that |
| 1932s | you know of please send them our way |
| 1934s | interpretstudios.com |
| 1935s | um this |
| 1937s | i cannot express enough just how excited |
| 1939s | i am to live inside of vera and i think |
| 1941s | i think that our community uh is |
| 1944s | chomping at the bits to live there with |
| 1946s | me uh and all of us it is um yeah i was |
| 1949s | just gonna say like i mean we could |
| 1951s | probably just sit here and let this run |
| 1952s | for 10 hours straight and put it on |
| 1954s | youtube and totally do that monetize it |
| 1957s | or something like that monetize it |
| 1961s | you know those 10-hour like ambient |
| 1963s | loose |
| 1964s | oh my gosh that was hilarious we were |
| 1966s | talking about it today how we like just |
| 1968s | left this running yesterday after one of |
| 1969s | our tests then we came back to the |
| 1970s | conference room and it was still running |
| 1972s | and it was still windy and it was |
| 1973s | perfect it was just like oh wow it's you |
| 1975s | know still alive and running absolutely |
| 1977s | i constantly get distracted by |
| 1980s | staring i'm just oh yeah it should be |
| 1982s | working it's actually kind of um yeah |
| 1984s | it's calming and you know |
| 1987s | great to just when you're working just |
| 1988s | sit there and stare at it for five |
| 1990s | minutes |
| 1991s | i literally have this exact scene on my |
| 1992s | computer desktop right now just right |
| 1995s | who needs to go outside when you go to |
| 1997s | vero |
| 1998s | absolutely |
| 1999s | love it all right guys we are going to |
| 2001s | see you guys back on stream tristan |
| 2003s | james brian thanks for hanging out with |
| 2005s | me and explaining your really cool |
| 2006s | amazing job at making vera a place that |
| 2008s | we all want to live in um i cannot |
| 2010s | express enough how much i appreciate the |
| 2012s | work that you guys do to making this |
| 2014s | dream a reality and how much our |
| 2016s | community loves it as well |
| 2018s | so thank you for joining us thank you |
| 2019s | for all your hard work uh stream give us |
| 2022s | hearts for tristan bryan and james and |
| 2024s | all of the |
| 2025s | team on the environment side on the art |
| 2027s | side everybody at intrepid we're working |
| 2029s | a way to make this stream a reality i |
| 2031s | will see you guys back on stream shortly |
| 2034s | alright see you bye everybody |
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