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The drills were a lot of fun to concept and bring to fruition, and some of the first assets I created on my own from start to finish, from concept to final mesh and texture. I think the drill made from a tape gun and a hand drill is my favorite of the three.
Nothing like a sweet (or savory!) treat to put you back on your feet. There are plenty of pies to make - assuming you’ve teched up into Ovens - which are crafted from all kinds of foods you might find or grow.
Making the pie really tested my modeling chops. It was tricky to assemble it in a way where each slice comes together to make a part of the whole without having weird gaps, mainly because of the lattice crust. The process was probably not entirely dissimilar to how you make the lattices on a real pie.
Only a brilliant scientific mind would think: "I should place a landmine on the end of a sledgehammer." This beast of a weapon and miracle of science is somehow relatively safe to use. I really like the dings and burn marks to indicate (explosive) wear, as well as the general construction of the head.
The server rack was a lot of fun to paint. The cables were tricky to get looking right, but I think I did a pretty good job on the drive-bay CRT. You tell me! The blinking lights really make this piece pop, and it looks awesome inside the glow of a server room - and we have a lot of those in the facility! Some of our process involves painting over real world examples to achieve our stylized retro look. This was one of my first forays into painting over photographs as part of my texturing process.
While we first described this effect as “confetti” in a joke-like manner, it’s turned into anything but a joke. The [REDACTED] has a vicious projectile attack, emitting a burst of confetti-like fragments accompanying the main purple “laser” effect. It’s become quite the deadly spectacle, with a hint of twinkling afterglow…Underwater FX
Quite possibly my favorite – and possibly most scary – effect this week: Underwater Post Process effects! I think the GIF speaks for itself. Big otherworldly fish not included. Not in this status report, anyway.
I added support for items to emit radiation, whether it's on ground, in a container or even held by an unfortunate scientist. This can be mitigated by special gear and containers that shield the radiation. It gives an extra challenge and choice in co-op play, where the group must decide who’s the poor soul that has to hold the spicy power cell.
Luckily, refrigerators block a bit of radiation too, so all that stored up alien meat won’t make your kitchen the deadliest place to be… most of the time.
When moving between sectors, we wanted to show a clear change in the environment, for example giving the deep labs that “Big Science'' feel, opting for more curvature and a bit of a “Have I been abducted?” sort of vibe. You can also tell the higher up (or deeper down?) scientists have had a bit of a budgetary surplus, complete with artificial daylight and taxidermied denizens of some other world.
