New Blood

We have been in full-out "polish the game" mode for the last few months. It's been pretty awesome to see the types of improvements that we're able to do with that extra time.

One of the places that really stands out to me, has been our blood effects. Dark Sector is a game in which you throw a sharp metal glaive, so we've iterated on the blood many many times trying to find that perfect color/thickness/hotness.

Here are two screen shots which compare our blood from 2 months ago, to the blood we have today:


Shot 1 - This trooper (I'm guessing he is left handed now) - looses his arm and leaks a few pints of grainy brand X blood.



Shot 2 - His short sleeved friend realized that you can't save your arms... but unfortunately for him, he still lost his leg. Notice the new blood :)



When we spend hours debating the quality and pouring over different kinds of blood, spatter patterns, and thickness -- I know I made the right career move and my parents must be proud ;)


I'll answer another set of questions later this week.

Sheldon

10 comments:

Lars said...

ah nice, bring on the blood, taha.. new blood does look more realistic [i guess ;)] old blood looked kinda like it ad macaronies in it

will the character model get stained?

Unknown said...

i kinda liked the raspberry jam blood...

Anonymous said...

DUDE! Bodily dismemberment will get this game surely banned in Germany. I guess this will be censored here to get this through our censors office.

Anonymous said...

I love it!

Looks like a dark red nose bleed type of blood...nice...I think Blade would be proud of you guys :P

Sheldon, about questions...here is my ultimate question...

I know from few interviews (PAX being one)...any demo before the end of 2007!?

Lars said...

you guys should post a pic of *omg i cant remember hes name* with that robo-ish helmet that pops out of hes shoulders, like we saw in the end of that webisode.. that'd be sick ;D

Anonymous said...

the blood looks good but i wont to see guns what are the guns going to look like and some ways that thay will change gameplay

xuthinkyrhardx said...

im the anonymous i have one more Qution what about online will u have the glave and how many maps and what thay might look like

Lars said...

dont waste your time on online play devs! lol

Unknown said...

Devilish improvement. As Xut' said earlier it ould be nice to see what weapons will be available for use .
Ah well not long til release anyway.

Lars said...

wow loads of dark sector stuff has happend this week!! =D
pix and vids and stuff woow

that cutscene looks awsome, the graphics are better then i thought