2013-03-23, 12:53 AM
(2013-03-02, 12:53 AM)HwitVlf link Wrote:The game seems to avoid straight polygon lines such as on the roof line in this picture. Lines that are straight, like the boards piled against the wall, are posed in irregular angles and textures use an effect similar to camouflage with irregular color blobs along the edges to mask them.
I can't fathom any value in this myself. Ancient builders were more precise than modern builders. And I can't think of any reason (no matter how remote that) this kind of art policy would make a game look better. Needless to say when using tiles as with SOM, which is a good idea, eschewing straight lines, especially on the boundaries, would pose all kinds of problems for authors and modelers alike.
In short there's nothing unnatural about straight lines. When it comes to man-made things they are more common than the alternative (edited: of course for organic or rotted/haphazardly built structures as seen here a straight line is just simply incorrect, an off line is a better approximation)