Watch the video here: http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/#page1
At various times you’ll see asteroid belts of various radius, density, and orbital speed. We needed to create a dense asteroid belt for a closeup. We don’t do photo-real. The emotional effect from shape and movement is more important as the game is largely based on a comic book style. Take a peek at the screenshots and other media for more examples. From a technical point of view, since this asteroid belt must perform in a real time environment, must be optimal in use of resources. The challenge was this asteroid belt had to be created by a junior artist with no technical skills and done in rapid fashion unsupervised. The question is how do you instruct such a person to create the asteroid belt to get the task done quickly (< 30 minutes), effectively, and with minimal risk against immediate and long term objectives related to pipeline. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 12:19 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Survey - how would you do this? Sorry, thats what I meant, if you are still curious as to seeing some more different approaches. Also, just wanted to clarify about the orbits of the asteroids. is it like Saturn ring or Asteroid belt as am sure you mentioned planets. if it is a ring then definitely a bitmap approach until close up then still bitmaps as they are only micrometer > meter and you could squeeze a lot more smaller clumps onto a bitmap versus geometry does your engine do cloud gridss and can fly through them? I imagine an asteroid ring would be similar. On 14 February 2014 20:01, Matt Lind <ml...@carbinestudios.com<mailto:ml...@carbinestudios.com>> wrote: It was solved even before I sent out the first message. I was just curious how other people would solve the same problem given the circumstances. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:57 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: Survey - how would you do this? Emilio wrote "they simply took a pristine and talented dev team who understood the artists, and plugged them into The Matrix" ahem. that will be *some*, but not all of the talented dev. am guessing some chose not to go work for the 'matrix' . some were then fired apparently in rounds of 'must make more profit for shareholders' can we get back to asteroids. Matt, has it been solved and we can end this thread or you still looking for some differnt ideas?
