Designers wanted to give the player the ability to toggle seeing through walls so they could understand their progress and goals. \u00a0At the time, I was given to believe transparent model drawing was a scary thing and attempted to provide alternate solutions to the problem rather than actually tackle it. \u00a0This was the start of the (at the time) solution: glow outline silhouettes.<\/p>\n
The idea was to do them like Left 4 Dead where certain objects of interest could be outlined in a glowing color, and that outline would not be occluded by any world geometry. \u00a0This was the first step, to outline objects. \u00a0You’ll notice that that’s all that’s happening here; you can’t limit what’s being outlined, you can’t specify color, and they don’t glow. \u00a0It might even look like they’re occluded by geometry, but in keeping with the\u00a0aesthetic\u00a0of Left 4 Dead, they were cumulative. \u00a0It can just be hard to tell that that’s what’s going on.<\/p>\n
This image was taken on 10\/10\/12.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>GoodGraphics13.png, glow outline silhouettes.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Designers wanted to give the player the ability to toggle seeing through walls so they could understand their progress and goals. \u00a0At the time, I was given to believe transparent model drawing was a scary thing and attempted to provide alternate solutions to the problem rather than actually tackle it. \u2026 Continue reading