Age of Mythology: Retold

[Trinketos]

 

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

6 hours ago, Trinketos said:

 

Okay, how do we get our grass sprites to look like that?

[Stan`]

Maybe it's geometry instead of alpha, but we need instancing for that.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

 

 

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Hoplites look so badass.

[Stan`]

It's weird, most stuff looks way better, but some of it seems to have lost its soul.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

44 minutes ago, Stan` said:

It's weird, most stuff looks way better, but some of it seems to have lost its soul.

Anything in particular? 

[Stan`]

The egyptian fortress looked a bit flat/bland.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

8 minutes ago, Stan` said:

The egyptian fortress looked a bit flat/bland.

Indeed. I think there is a lot of improvement, but also some examples of them making things blander to fit an overall aesthetic. I like the improvement to the Mausoleum of Halicarnasus though:

 

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

I think the game's ships look stupidly cartoony though. Always have, so I was looking forward to a bit of a design improvement, but instead they made them look dumber. 

[Stan`]

43 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

I think the game's ships look stupidly cartoony though. Always have, so I was looking forward to a bit of a design improvement, but instead they made them look dumber. 

It got similar to AOE4, I suppose it's the same engine? They probably have studies that tell them it's what player want.

I'm happy the units look like the cinematic models we had back then

 

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

1 hour ago, Stan` said:

I'm happy the units look like the cinematic models we had back then

No joke, the cinematic models back in 2002 had one 256x256 texture. I believe 256x256 was the engine's texture size limit.

[Trinketos]

4 hours ago, Stan` said:

It got similar to AOE4, I suppose it's the same engine? They probably have studies that tell them it's what player want.

I'm happy the units look like the cinematic models we had back then

 

they use AOE3 DE engine for Retold, this two games looks similar

https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Age_of_Mythology:_Retold#Pre-release_information

Edited July 18, 2024 by Trinketos

[Stan`]

Ah yeah but it's the definitive edition so they probably have some stuff cartoonized.

[alre]

buildings have lower contrast compared to the original version. It seems to me the did a better job with units.

[BeTe]

Man, this game looks so similar to 0AD and same as Delenda Est?  

Btw, I went to check how AOM looks and found this. It says it's Retold, early beta access, so you guys might be interested?

P.S.
we need to advertise 0ad as "AOM Ascedent" or "AOM open-source" as well and get some players !  

 

 

Edited July 19, 2024 by BeTe

[Genava55]

I think it will be a huge success

[Stan`]

So is this what RTS UIs should look like now?

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

2 hours ago, Stan` said:

So is this what RTS UIs should look like now?

Pretty much

[alre]

4 hours ago, Stan` said:

So is this what RTS UIs should look like now?

they used the engine from aoe4, it was easier to them to keep the aoe4 layout anyway.

of course 0ad vanilla GUI feels pretty outdated on modern monitors, but you don't need to look at aoe4 to see that, just check boonGUI out.

[Stan`]

On 18/07/2024 at 3:41 AM, Trinketos said:

they use AOE3 DE engine for Retold, this two games looks similar

Apparently not.

3 minutes ago, alre said:

of course 0ad vanilla GUI feels pretty outdated on modern monitors, but you don't need to look at aoe4 to see that, just check boonGUI out.

@Langbart did an awesome job with that. I'm sad he got eventually frustrated of me/0ad development.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

28 minutes ago, Stan` said:

Apparently not.

@Langbart did an awesome job with that. I'm sad he got eventually frustrated of me/0ad development.

Nah, I think I pissed him off.

[alre]

3 hours ago, Stan` said:

Apparently not.

right. I was confused. arrows don't auto-follow btw.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

One thing I learned just now is that AOM:R has servers and they've abandoned P2P multiplayer hosting. This is just fantastic.

[Stan`]

Money solves issues