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<\/p>\nI was never convinced that the cars in Production line looked shiny enough. The average car on the average street looks…ok, but when a car is BRAND NEW, they look insanely polished and shiny, and I think that we were not achieving that in the game until recently.<\/p>\n
Some messing around with re-rendering off images, and some adjustment of shaders and some code has allowed me to produce the following images, which I’m happy with, although I may end up toning them down ‘a bit’. (its a shader where I can easily adjust the strength downwards a bit).<\/p>\n
Exhibit A is a car that is still being assembled. Structural bits are matte, and the final external panels are a bit shiny, because they are brand new shiny steel\/aluminium:<\/p>\n
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Exhibit B is a car that has received an undercoat. Currently this is way too dark, so I’ll be adjusting that to be much lighter:<\/p>\n
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Exhibit C is a car with its final coat of colored paint. This is a standard car:<\/p>\n
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Exhibit D is a car that has had the ‘polished paintwork’ feature researched and applied to it, so it looks extra shiny:<\/p>\n
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I may adjust these a bit, depending on feedback. Interestingly I asked a lot of people for their opinions and although a lot of people on twitter preferred an unglossy look, the players of the game on my facebook page tended to prefer a more glossy look, so obviously those people are my priority. I also still intend to maintain the ‘glossy cars’ option so players can just toggle off the shader entirely if they dont like it. The cars will still look a bit glossy, because its baked into the textures, but it wwill tend towards the look of the undecorated cars (matte) rather than the glossy or super glossy.<\/p>\n
Open top sports cars with gold plated wheels are going to look super over the top :D. (and they should be for the price).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was never convinced that the cars in Production line looked shiny enough. The average car on the average street looks…ok, but when a car is BRAND NEW, they look insanely polished and shiny, and I think that we were not achieving that in the game until recently. Some messing around with re-rendering off images,<\/p>\n