Your water looks fantastic. 
The rock tiles look a bit busy and the shading I would think would look more like this:

Yeah.  Same deal.  Your light is coming from the rear.

Throw a few variations of the rock tile into the mix and replaced the second volcano with something else

Not sure about making it wispy, but I can try stretching them out and shade them differently might lessen the effect, or at least provide a better alternative to before.

Changed the lighting/colours on the clouds, probably still needs work.

Brightened up the central oil rig as well.

The character is so gray and boring that even Awesome Possum will kick his sad ass. I love the sea thought, but the Sun's reflection on the water should be bigger and different. Look up references.

Made some changes to the character sprite, though I'm not sure if this is doing anything or I'm just polishing a turd at this point.

The ,,Buildings'' look kinda wierd this kinda setting because they seem to have no shadows...

The charcter isnt super bad...just very plain ATM...maybe add shulder armor and tweak head and chest a little? ATM this is a Can-robot wich means he is built out of cylinders and there are just stripes to make him fancy (and that just works by cars)

But stripes make everything faster!

In all seriousness though, I think I'm going to have to leave this part alone until I'm out of exams and have the time to really sit down and go through it properly. Every change I've made so far has been in 5-10 minute breaks between work.


As for the buildings, do you mean they aren't casting a shadow or that there is no shadow on the building itself? If the latter I have been trying to address that:



Pretty happy with the oil rig on the left. Not so much with the box on the right (could probably turn it into a cylinder and call it a storage tank, then I could probably find a reason to blow it up from within the level).





With regards to the asymmetry, there is some method to my madness. The idea was to plonk a big landmass over on the left hand side, which would create such a distortion (perhaps not this dramatic though). That said, I've been a right muppet and stuck the landmass over on the left hand side, completely negating the entire point. I think I'd like to re-draw it completely, try and add in some sea fog or pollution around the oil rigs.

Da left one looks better now indeed...but i think i know whats bothering me:

They have that very weird outline. The Entire thing just looks out of place because the antenne looks normal but the building has that wierd outline (sorry when i cant state my point...me bad english do)

No thanks, I've got enough of those in the programming.


Jokes aside I've always been pretty dead set on using a mechanical protagonist (it's a little easier to justify why your character is spamming missiles Macross style out of it's backside when it's a machine, at least without playing the rule of cool that is). But that said, I am in need of a decent range of weird and wonderful aliens to fill the world with, and a bugger-like (or formic-like if you've only seen the film) race are definitely on the to-do list.




I think I understand what you're getting at, the shading should continue all the way around and not be suddenly cut off by said outline. At least that's the theory with the cylinder, with the box it could be interpreted as part of the structure, but I'm not keeping it that shape so that's irrelevant here anyway.

I've had a go at removing this outline (left structure only, still haven't decided what's going to happen to the right) and had a somewhat hamfisted go at reducing the contrast of the background objects.

Make a half-naked female cyborg with large boobs and ass, maybe with a few megaman/samus references. Instant selling point for your game.

Hey man, made a quick edit.

I probably should of paid more attention to your profile picture though, but it will still hopefully be useful to you.

A few things to think about maybe. What materials are you using? Smooth Metals tend to have a high contrast between its brightest and darkest colours, but the red paint or any decals while also a smooth shiny surface might have slightly less contrast. Thats a simple example in relation to what you've made, but thinking about these materials can go a long way in helping to render properly. Google images is your friend, go look for a reference when in doubt.

Think more about light. Light theory is tough to get your head around, I struggle with it a lot myself. And here I notice about 3 different light sources, which can be visually confusing. Setting a single light source and adhering to it will go a long way in making all your characters look consistent. I made a start to this as you can see, with a light source above and slightly to the right. Shadows are important to, like under the chin, armpits etc

There are other things I touched on in the edit, such as a more natural pose/stance, making sense of how different parts of the body attach to each other in a way that makes sense. But I have mentioned them, so might be worth taking some time to think about it.
Hope all my rambling makes some sense.

I had envisioned it as being a lightweight ceramic armour (slight oxymoron there, but this is set in the far future so there's some leeway), with the dark black sections being some kind of flexible rubber. The problem with this is it's probably going to be painted over anyway. My immediate thoughts are to use something like this as reference:

http://photos.jibble.org/Vehicles/Tanks/Bovington%20Tank%20Museum/Polish%20built%20T-55%20with%20Iraqi%20armour%20modifications%20IMG_2772.JPG

As for energy, I had planned for an energy shield to be a sort of power up, so that idea could work for that, though I don't think tying it to the player's health is a good idea for what I want to do.

tree is nice.

You could improve the run cycle by having a mid air position. Now it looks like he is walking really fast, because his legs remain in contact with the floor

Lost the original file I had for my background, having to re-draw most of it so I can parallax it properly.



Certainly feels better than last time but I still can't get the sky right.

The idea is that all the islands are parallaxed and constantly move as you progress through the level so the composition will always be changing. That said I can try and target certain layouts when I get around to putting this up in engine.

As for the sky and whatnot, this is a terribly hacky edit but is this roughly what you mean?

Made a few more tweaks to the background and gotten it working inside the engine.


https://gyazo.com/8522e99b220a9210e8a99e40470e140f


Also gone and started work on a death animation


https://gyazo.com/8eb40f9cc55e82f8e0d1659eb8a07afc

I love the death animation

Uh, nice work! I can see the Zero inspiration in there.

I'm worried about the sword effect reach, it looks a bit too narrow. Also it is too outlined and looks solid. You might want to make it without outlines altoghether.

Improved the shoot animation following some feedback given to me elsewhere.

Attempting to put some form of expression on the gormless bastard.

Very nice! Really good progress

I'd personally make the grass simpler. For example:

I'm the 3000th (and 3001st) view on this forum. Nice job with the space station. The lighting makes it really stand out like a 3D object.