A question from a fellow indie game dev. It's a bit technical so hopefully I explain this well enough. First of all, your editor is extremely impressive. from what I've seen so far I believe it was mentioned you do not actually render 3D meshes for the 3D rotation of these sprite parts, but you do still utilize a generated depth map, so I would presume this is accomplished using some pretty intricate and clever fragment shaders. Either way, if you're using depth data to generate 3D or faux-3D projections, my question is this. is this depth map data being converted to normal map data, can these normals be seen in the editor, and if so, is it or will it ever be possible to see these rendered sprites with properly calculated normals? In other words, instead of the base textures (the pixel art) can these "meshes" be rendered with their normal map data, properly rendered to account for each mesh's x/y/z rotation? My hopes aren't high that this functionality would be in the editor, but looking at the tech you have, I know it could be. And hey, I know it's not common to use normal mapping with pixel art, but all the data is already there, you could absolutley impliment it and use it to create the illusion of 3D lighting. I'm developing a 2d pixel art game at the moment that heavily uses normal mapping and a pretty complex graphics pipeline with a pretty advanced custom lighting engine (which, is why i'm asking haha) You have an extremely clever product, here. Although it's usefulness is pretty niche, and even pretty niche among game devs, for me personally this looks like a miracle product.
1 year ago | 1
Im so happy about that, even more knowing i bought the game a week ago Will we be able to use custom character online (or even just being in private servers only) ?
1 year ago | 0
I have i few question but most important, will it run on lower graphic card? e.g gt 1030 ddr5 thanks, i really want to buy this
1 year ago | 0
Smack Studio
Smack Studio Online is here!! 🎉
After months of testing and working to perfect our rollback netcode, we finally feel that we’re in a place to open up online play to the public with a beta release! Thank you to everyone that helped us get to this point! 🙏
As an added surprise for y'all, we just released 3 new stages:
🍄 Mushroom Heights
🌇 Neon Metro
🌄 Highland Ruins
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