2007-01 Thursday 11th, Two new screens.

[jens]

Two new screens can be found at the Penumbra: Overture website media section. The screens are showing some dissection of an enemy as well as the view of a frozen lake.

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[gamgam2]

Weird, and why are the photo's slightly blury, kinda hard to see but kinda fuzzy..
But interesting=]

[piibii]

I think it's the Depth of Field effect.

[Dark]

no then there would be a point on the screen where everything is blurry
think it is low quality teaser screens :d

[timonator]

it is (imo) the DOF effect, you can see the rock in the middle of the screen - it's pretty clear (may just be my eyes, tho)

[Guest]

Very nice, are the light-ray effects in the 2nd screen done using billboards or just transparent meshes?

[Dark]

in the first screen it is DOF indeed (altough its not a rock but a monster )
and about the light rays i dont know
what do you mean with bilboards btw? :$

[Guest]

in the first screen it is DOF indeed (altough its not a rock but a monster )
and about the light rays i dont know
what do you mean with bilboards btw? :$

Billboard is like a 2D image in 3D space. Remember the first early 3D games, how on some with grass or a bush, you could walk around it, but it wouldn't really be 3D, it is just like a 2D image of grass/bush that is constantly facing the camera. Great example is in Doom, those explosive barrels.

Rock Lobster!!!

[Dark]

oooh, you mean sprites :p
i dont think that are sprites, maybe just volumetric light or a map hack (like in HL)

[Thomas]

Just to clear things up. Both images have depth of field and the rays are billboards (axis aligned to be specific).

And yeah, we like dof