The improvements certainly appear to be worth the time and effort, they look great. As always its nice to hear Joppa talk shop about lore and design while Roenick mentioned a few times he has been impressed with the development speed recently. Keep the train rolling boys!
VR really needs to show off the new lighting system that came with HDRP. Part of the HDRP asset conversion is to have extra layers to allow assets cast shadows and reflect light appropriate to their form.
Show off how the HDRP lights stack with multiple players, armor reflections, shadows cast from walking by objects.
chenzeme said:What? No dissidence, dicord or disapproval! Wow! VR you must be on the right track. :D
Seriously though. Great work, progress and my expectation is getting greater and greater!
Check the YouTube comments if you want the expected moaning and groaning.
Lots of folks saying "they are re-writing it all again!" "It will never release!" etc hehe. Ignoring that those points have been addressed again and again, of course.
Less moaning than usual, though, definitely!
Good stuff VR. Can't wait to try it. Writing on top of Unity will give many such 'rewards' over the years, I hope, and, though the effect to incorporate this upgrade seems significant, it seems more than worth it and, as you keep saying, every such reworking makes the subsequent development faster and better.
This goes for the refactoring and tool development you've done over the past couple of years too.
Whilst you *could* have built upon previous code and produced something good in short order, I am very pleased that you guys chose to re-work and refactor in order to produce a product, that I'm sure will be, many times better in many ways and, actually, probably will take less time in the longer run when producing expansions and upgrades.
Not only am I confident it will be better, it speaks well of your working practices, attitudes and ideals to not just make do with something you realise was messy and problematic. Also to 'do your thing' rather than heed to significant complaining about the time development has been taking.
Please keep doing your things hehe.
