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A peek into our Art department and a look at upcoming features

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Cunane Jeran
#41 - 2011-10-28 22:38:54 UTC
Awesome! Looking forward to seeing more. While your hanging around the art department can you poke the guys into redoing the potato shoe we currently know as the Domi?
Sarmatiko
#42 - 2011-10-28 22:38:58 UTC
Also I approve Raven remodel without actual "OMG-CCP-make-all-ships-like-in-Star-Trek-and-symmetrical" redesign P
Sadayiel
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#43 - 2011-10-28 22:42:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Sadayiel
CCP Guard wrote:
As a part of our effort to reveal more of what we have in development, regardless of precise release dates, the Community Team has started producing video dev blogs. The first one takes us deep inside the Art Department where beauty is forged.

This first part focuses on new nebulas and the new model for the Raven, both of which are currently very likely to make it into the winter expansion.

P.s. we did this video on a tight deadline and CCP Loki was editing 'til 3 am last night. I think he deserves a bro fist from everyone.


The most wicked thing of the video it's the PROOF of CCP trying to dumb ANY game even more...


I mean a four square rubik cube C'mon... that's just low Twisted

P.S: btw WTH are you holding most of the video CCP Guard it looks to me to either a weird grenade or something worse Lol
P.S.S: also brofist for CCP Loki ... someone must do it anyway
Houseki Shoujo
Perkone
Caldari State
#44 - 2011-10-28 22:43:09 UTC
ITTigerClawIK wrote:
ya did wounders for the Crow why cant you do it to the raven


Wow that is a nice looking ship. Looks fast and functional.
Ravenzfire
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#45 - 2011-10-28 22:43:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Ravenzfire
The Raven is Iconic, a massive rework would be doing it a disservice. I liked that the focus is mostly on the back end since the current one just kind of ends in the back and never looked finished. A new texture will add to it but an entire overhaul is certainly not needed. Don't like it? Don't fly it :)
Logan LaMort
Screaming Hayabusa
#46 - 2011-10-28 22:44:53 UTC
Aaron Barton
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#47 - 2011-10-28 22:53:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Aaron Barton
I rather like the overall look of the Raven. My biggest gripes with the old model were that the wings were lobsided and that the model wasn't centered along its central axis (running from the cockpit to the main engine).

I'd just absolutely love it if the new model had generally even wings. Same overall size, but different indentations and protrusions scattered about. Balanced asymmetry, as it were.
Yvan Ratamnim
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#48 - 2011-10-28 22:56:46 UTC
That was a really short video lol

Tho nice to see raven is getting revamped but honestly raven before dominix wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shadowsword
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#49 - 2011-10-28 23:05:15 UTC
New nebulaes that give you a sence of location: I like. Shut up and take my money, CCP.

New Raven: meh. It's was ugly because it was so asymetrical, and it's still asymetrical.
Jonas Xiamon
#50 - 2011-10-28 23:12:05 UTC
Asymmetry isn't always ugly, but it is in this case, how about making it slightly less asymmetrical with every iteration?

The Kestrel for example, isn't symmetrical, neither is the Ishkur, but they're both good looking ships... Big ships, however, need to be symmetrical.

I usally write one of these and then change it a month later when I reread it and decide it sounds stupid.
Dessau
The Scope
#51 - 2011-10-28 23:15:24 UTC
Thanks for the heads up, gentlemen. Looking forward to scaling nebulae defining regions of space.
ITTigerClawIK
Galactic Rangers
#52 - 2011-10-28 23:19:41 UTC
in order to reduce my bitter vet-ness i do concur the new nebulae are totaly EPIC and must come out this expansion ^_^
KaarBaak
Squirrel Team
#53 - 2011-10-28 23:25:45 UTC

If I understood "Basement Ben" a big part of the new nebula will be the ability to see the nebula of one system from another system. That's extremely cool. It ratchets up the realism a bit, which is always good. Right now each system seems like it exists outside of every other system in the New Eden universe.

Seeing/knowing that your destination is in the direction of "Second star to the right, and straight on til morning" is +cool.

Dum Spiro Spero
CCP Guard
C C P
C C P Alliance
#54 - 2011-10-28 23:30:58 UTC
KaarBaak wrote:

If I understood "Basement Ben" a big part of the new nebula will be the ability to see the nebula of one system from another system. That's extremely cool. It ratchets up the realism a bit, which is always good. Right now each system seems like it exists outside of every other system in the New Eden universe.

Seeing/knowing that your destination is in the direction of "Second star to the right, and straight on til morning" is +cool.



That's the correct understanding :).

oh...and the nebula will be on SiSi next week and we really want your feedback on how they look and feel.

CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer | @CCP_Guard
Sir Substance
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#55 - 2011-10-28 23:39:33 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Mr LaForge wrote:
Was hoping for a symmetrical raven model.


wait, you want to remove the primary defining characteristic of caldari ships?

if you want symmetry, train amarr.


I agree, I suspect that a lot of people don't remember very well what the original scorp looked like. It made me sad flying it. It was lament incarnate. The raven is simply not an automatically aesthetically pleasing shape.

Also remember that the raven is an iconic model, and they have a warehouse full of IRL models of it, so they can't change it too dramatically :P

To be honest, most of the ships in eve just need the loving high res treatment, I'm glad its being dished out.

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DarkAegix
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#56 - 2011-10-28 23:41:37 UTC
CCP Guard wrote:
oh...and the nebula will be on SiSi next week and we really want your feedback on how they look and feel.

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GeeShizzle MacCloud
#57 - 2011-10-28 23:41:53 UTC  |  Edited by: GeeShizzle MacCloud
CCP Guard wrote:
The thing in my hand is a funky looking mic that someone made me hold so people could hear what I'm saying. Someone on YouTube suggested it looks like a taser. I rather like that Big smile


lol that funky looking mic is not just a mic... its a mc and a recorder there Guard! :) i know i have one sitting on my table for recording sounds and stuff on location or interesting stuff i might use in audio post production.

wouldnt have used it to record someone walking around and talking tho but to each his own! u should tell those wacky AV kids u got to go out and get themselves a boom mic holder and fuzzy boom shield.

CCP Guard wrote:
KaarBaak wrote:

If I understood "Basement Ben" a big part of the new nebula will be the ability to see the nebula of one system from another system. That's extremely cool. It ratchets up the realism a bit, which is always good. Right now each system seems like it exists outside of every other system in the New Eden universe.

Seeing/knowing that your destination is in the direction of "Second star to the right, and straight on til morning" is +cool.



That's the correct understanding :).

oh...and the nebula will be on SiSi next week and we really want your feedback on how they look and feel.


omg i hope the download for all those unbroken super hi res nebulae for each system arent gonna be tooooooo big... tho i have to say, i for one will not mind at all if it all works out well!
Grey Stormshadow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#58 - 2011-10-28 23:46:11 UTC
I definitely saw some ship spinning being done there. Raven went at least 720 decrees.

Get classic forum style - custom videos to captains quarters screen

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Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#59 - 2011-10-28 23:48:18 UTC
CCP Guard wrote:
KaarBaak wrote:

If I understood "Basement Ben" a big part of the new nebula will be the ability to see the nebula of one system from another system. That's extremely cool. It ratchets up the realism a bit, which is always good. Right now each system seems like it exists outside of every other system in the New Eden universe.

Seeing/knowing that your destination is in the direction of "Second star to the right, and straight on til morning" is +cool.



That's the correct understanding :).

oh...and the nebula will be on SiSi next week and we really want your feedback on how they look and feel.


That is quite cool.

But what about the stars? If I'm in Botane will I be able to see the star in the Dodixie system? If I go to the Dodixie stargate and sight in the direction it points, will I see the Dodixie star?

Will the stars in the background be the stars we go to, properly placed in the background given their location in the Eve star cluster, and with their correct color and brightness?

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GeeShizzle MacCloud
#60 - 2011-10-28 23:53:30 UTC
^^ i think its gonna be a case that the nebulae are gonna be the feature focal points that are the reoccuring themes in all the starfields... the rest of the stars (for now) will prob be from a generic starmap.


tho i really hope CCP is gonna bump up the starfield depth and play around some more with getting some star clusters in there rather than a very evenly diffused starfield.... hint hint =)