Welcome to a new devlog for Assembly RTS, the physics-based real-time strategy game!
(a huge wrecked space craft stranded on a desolate landscape)
Hi everyone, I hope you are doing swell.
This week I significantly improved the visuals of the terrain and the gameplay environment in general.
New Terrain Textures
We went from this:
To this:
To accommodate for all the changes I've made this week I had to adapt the post processing, which is why everything appears more blue now. Let me know what you think of this change in the comments section!
As you see, I completely changed the textures used for the terrain.
Perhaps it looks a bit less realistic, but more importantly the terrain surface looks a lot more interesting in my opinion.
Additionally, by replacing the premium Microsplat terrain shader with my own simplified shader, performance is significantly improved on low- to mid tier graphics cards.
Terrain shading has also improved as a side effect...
Improved Terrain Shading
Previous:
Current:
New Water and Ice
For more visual variety I created new shaders for water surfaces and ice chunks:
I also introduced a new ice surface:
An Attempt at Sparkling Snow
I tried making the snow on the terrain sparkle realistically, hoping that it would make the snow even more tangible, like you could almost touch it! However, I didn't have much luck so far.
Maybe I'll give it another try at a later point in development...
Do you think that glittering snow could significantly improve visuals or does it not really matter that much?
Please let me know in the comments section, I'm interested in your opinion.
An early attempt at snow glitter:
That's it for this week. Don't forget to wishlist Assembly RTS on Steam if you haven't already!
