Hi Matt

Huge fan of the look and feel of Wildstar.  Havent had a MMO with an 
exceptional cartoony style since Wow. Everyone in between has always tried the 
same formula so its refreshing to see.

Good luck



________________________________
From: Matt Lind [ml...@carbinestudios.com]
Sent: 14 February 2014 11:53 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: Survey - how would you do this?

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?



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