April 18th, 2023 Livestream

Desert Canyons

https://youtube.com/embed/5NBgetrxtpw?autoplay=1&start=634&end=870

Transcript

so here's one area that I think a lot of people want to check out and it's the, yeah, and I believe this shot we used in the video is over here doesn't reveal too much but I think this this is like roughly what you saw in the video this is what it is yeah so exactly so when this shot as you can see now you can have those those pillars on the left and also the pillars of sandstone on the right like all the Sandstone stuff is brand new and a lot of the the Great Clips have been converted here to make the transition a lot nicer so transition from the desert into like sparkles and green forest here now we've taken care of keeping them in roughly the same spots, as the great cliffs but since they're shaped so differently the two sets, there's bound to be some differences so hopefully it won't really break too much but there's a good chance some things will be strange from the conversations that we had, Hannah yeah I feel like this is probably the biggest candidate area for Cliffs swallowing up Factory buildings I don't know if many people build here but like if you do yeah there is an oil up yeah there's probably people have built here and yeah the the landscape itself shouldn't have changed too much, and the cliffs like we try to place them as inoffensive as possible when we do any changes but, you know you never quite know what the impact is gonna be so yeah this is what it looks like I don't know if, when you go deeper into this as a candidates I don't know how much has changed here for instance yeah it's all the foliage has changed here because we we've essentially made it a transition biome instead of a kind of a separate biome It's usually the the way we think of a biome is that each biome has its own climate its own theme its own like asset sets and stuff like some biomes will share assets with each other, but this one it kind of just it was so small and it it was kind of like this Nexus between four different biomes in a way that we figured that it might be nicer to just make this full-on transition area, so we've converted it entirely into transition spaces so we've taken assets and themes from sparkles from learning forest from Titan forest and from Dune desert and kind of like try to mix them in ways that made sense so make everything kind of feel like less of a harsh transition essentially this part in particular is pretty interesting I feel like because it's like it's like three different biomes ish that's like joined up together here ish it's like it goes up in the northern forests, like in this direction and here it's going out to like the the maze Canyon and stuff and tidal forest and then over here it's like going to the desert yep that's fun these transition areas are always interesting I assume to make because it feels like it's, those are the hardest ones to make they're pretty tricky yeah because you kind of gotta find assets that might areas and sometimes that's very hard, because some areas are systematically and and Palette wise so different that it's kind of hard to find commonalities and then usually what you do to make a transition kind of nicer is to remove assets over time to kind of have like more empty spots that are kind of more neutral usually like making it kind of Rocky Works Sandy sand and rock is a great way to transition things it's an interesting character because they're pretty Universal got the mix here between this here yeah duct tape Jake us is running in up under London five yes it is yes and then also