New Picture by TIY! (Biomes)

My heart skipped a beat when I've seen there was new screenshots.

Particularly, I like the 1st one, because of those trees.
But the others are awesome too!
Also, I wonder if we will be able to explore those pyramids, or if we will face enemies about the size of that skeleton on the background!

 

My buttocks are at full clench for this game.

Oh and the biomes are pretty neat.

 

You know forests may have more than 1 kind of trees?

 

In case you don't like clicking on links.

 

1: Yes, definately
2: They are well varied
3: It seems to fit together well enough, so yes
And If what people are saying is true, there will also be a video over the weekend on this?

edit: I do have one problem though, 3 of the pictures have pine forest backgrounds, and while forests can have different trees, it doesn't make too much sense looking at the foreground trees, specifically in the second and fourth pictures.

 

I dont know if this weekend, but i know it will be about water dynamics. (Probably Surely Yes, but if im wrong, this text will mysteriously dissapear!!!)

 

Hmm, you are in luck. Tiy just posted this on the homepage: http://playstarbound.com/biomes/
It shows some Biomes, they look nice awesome!

 

There are no such coincidences

 

Tiy must have heard your prayers.

 

You kiddin me? Tiy made the post before this post

 

But I started thinking about this weeks ago

 

Figure I'll post here as well.

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Do you like what you see? Is it pretty?
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Yeah, it is looking good. The backgrounds are pretty and the trees are fine.

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Is there enough variety from planet to planet?
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I'm not sure how much variety you are after. They are all pretty much the same height and the same build. Maybe there could be trees with longer branches and trees that have different crown growth patterns.

Here is an example of crowns:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pi...

The silhouettes make it easy to see the differences, that is a lot of variety.How about crazy tall trees which we can climb on? I'm talking the trunk of the tree is at least 3 times as wide as your character.

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Do the forests feel cohesive in design?
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The forest does seem fairly cohesive and will more so when the background match.It would be interesting if there were layers of interactive trees. The background trees feel like a forest but the sparse trees in the interactive area make it feel like a forest edge. I don't know if it is possible but it would be awesome if the interactive trees were a lot thicker and could "overlap" each other. So you could have a mix of heights of trees that slightly over lap with their crowns or branches. Cutting down the fore most tree allow you to cut down the one behind it, if the trunks are too close.

The generation of these would be tricky because it would be pretty easy for it look too jumbled. Here is simple example: http://imgur.com/auESi

As a player cuts down the brighter trees in the fore ground the darker trees brighten and become chop-able. This would be restricted to only 2 or 3 layers of "forest depth". This would make it feel much more like a forest rather than being on the edge of the forest.

 

You started thinking about biomes? biomes in a game? a game that will obviously have biomes? want a cookie?

 

No I mean some different biomes on the same planet (I hope Tiy meant it as well)

 

Tiy said those background trees were just placeholders if anyone read the post

 

I know. Actually, this one is better than the one posted in website, as in website they only show three of four pics.

 

1. I don't think trees can be beautiful, but they do definitely look very nice.
2. Eh, not sure. I was going to say yes, but then I noticed that in the last picture the tree second over from the left side of the picture looks identical to what I can see of the tree that got cut off on the right, so if the tree appearance really repeats that often I'd have to say no.
3. Kind of. I usually imagine forests having more trees. The 4th pic is a good example, there are 5 (or 4.5) trees visible, whereas the other 3 have only 2-3 trees in the whole screenshot. The 3rd picture in particular, there are 0 trees on the entire left half of the image.

 

please keep in mind that a lot of the graphics seen here are works in progress, this is not final thanks for all the feedback however!

 

Foregrounds look varied enough, backgrounds in the first too look the sameish. The first two pictures also look like platlet swaps almost. I still love it though.