Concept Art & Mockups - Aquatic Ruin Mockups Needed!!

You probably want to throw on a couple more subdivisions to the cylinders along the sides, just for consistency's sake.

 

They've always looked like neon lights to me.
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That's why I did it with that resolution

 

Since the pixels look more like rectangles in the Special Stage, the screen has the same aspect ratio (and size) than the rest of the game, because it has a smaller horizontal resolution.

 

Ok I've had another bash - this time drawing by hand - It is not finished and also needs a lot of tidying (I've done some)

 

I actually like it. Then again, I think Yoshi's Island has some of the best graphics in any videogame ever.

 

so I have to make it with..?? :S

 

<!--quoteo(post=231073:date=Oct 2 2008, 08:59 AM:name=ICEknight)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ICEknight @ Oct 2 2008, 08:59 AM) [/quote]They don't look rectangular, just... stretched. I don't think the mobile versions of Sonic 2 stretch the special stages either, and theirs are in 3D.

 

<!--quoteo(post=230933:date=Oct 1 2008, 06:27 PM:name=Acaeris)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Acaeris @ Oct 1 2008, 06:27 PM)

Here you go, that is the orange, yellow and white marble blocks. As I said above, still need to add detail to make it rougher and the final version will have a few different seem options for each colour to add variance to the level.[/quote]

Comments Plox...
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Well, they certainly aren't bad, but they look a little bit too clean to be a ruin.
Here's a close up of some brick ruins, for conceptual purposes. It might help.

 

roxahris, RamiroR, it is simply impossible to demonstrate non-aspect pixel modes in software. That's why Kega does it so badly, and Gens doesn't do it at all.

By hardware it is much easier. You all got a monitor right? And it has a button to bring up an OSD menu? Find an option that looks like two arrows pointing away from each other. Press it and stretch the screen. What it does is widen the width or the height of each pixel to make it non-square. It looks much nicer because you'll get an even result, and not a truncated one.
On a Television screen, running the special stage, or any other 32 char mode (many games do it because it is the default mode, or because they need to update a lot of tiles at once like cool 3D scenes - see Sonic 2 Special Stage ), the screen is stretched. At it looks good.

 

Ok so I tried again - might give up unless anyone feels it's worth carrying on

 

<!--quoteo(post=230523:date=Sep 30 2008, 03:41 PM:name=Acaeris)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Acaeris @ Sep 30 2008, 03:41 PM)

Here you go, that is the orange, yellow and white marble blocks. As I said above, still need to add detail to make it rougher and the final version will have a few different seem options for each colour to add variance to the level.[/quote]
I think that the main thing to do is to make crackles sharper and add more depth to bricks by adding shadings on edges.
A slight texture effect may come in handy! :D

Kezzzs, I think we'll go for El's colored base before applying filters to it!
It's the most Original-like shape we had so far

 

I thought that was hand drawn, not a filter D:

 

Sorry I was looking to the previous attempts!

Hand drawn is cool, yet I don't feels it's better and more versatile than EL's version. (We need also a color version of it!)

I strongly suggest to work on EL's version for further improvements.

 

Ok, thanks for the comments, I'll work on it some more this weekend. I did note that the blocks needed to be roughened up a bit. Thanks for the image though, that will be very helpful

 

<!--quoteo(post=231356:date=Oct 2 2008, 06:27 PM:name=Vincent)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Vincent @ Oct 2 2008, 06:27 PM)

Here you go, that is the orange, yellow and white marble blocks. As I said above, still need to add detail to make it rougher and the final version will have a few different seem options for each colour to add variance to the level.[/quote]
I think that the main thing to do is to make crackles sharper and add more depth to bricks by adding shadings on edges.
A slight texture effect may come in handy! :D
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I think you should also have a little variety with the cracks. Looking at the same brick over and over might be a little bit monotonous.

 

Well, Thx for the support as always Vinc, But my version is a little strange, Im drawing another version with a graphic Tablet I bought yesterday, I'll post it here when I finish it ^^

 

<!--quoteo(post=230523:date=Sep 30 2008, 08:41 AM:name=Acaeris)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Acaeris @ Sep 30 2008, 08:41 AM)

Here you go, that is the orange, yellow and white marble blocks. As I said above, still need to add detail to make it rougher and the final version will have a few different seem options for each colour to add variance to the level.[/quote]

I'd suggest keeping the blocks the same and then applying bump mapping in the rendering engine. Artists wouldn't have to produce several different copies of the bricks that way and you'd be sure the bricks blended together correctly. If done right, it could handle both the seams and the rough texture of the blocks. Not a sermon, just a thought.

 

But wouldn't using Bump Mapping clog up resources too much?
We could spend the same resources for more smaller and different FXs.