{"id":875,"date":"2011-05-27T18:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T01:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/?p=875"},"modified":"2011-05-27T18:54:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T01:54:29","slug":"themed-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2011\/05\/themed-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Themed areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in the previous couple of updates, we are starting to take steps toward establishing the visual style of the game.  This past week while I was on vacation, Shannon did a bunch of world editing, with the primary goal being to draft out a few areas of the world that have different color schemes, as concepted in <a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/?p=852\">this post<\/a>.  Here's how the island looks with all the new trees, rocks, etc added:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/shot_2011.05.27__time_18_34_n01.png\"><img src=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/shot_2011.05.27__time_18_34_n01-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"shot_2011.05.27__time_18_34_n01\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-877\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much denser and more visually interesting; it's starting to look like maybe a good game!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some close-ups of different areas now.<\/p>\n<p>Autumnal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/shot_2011.05.27__time_18_35_n03.png\"><img src=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/shot_2011.05.27__time_18_35_n03-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"shot_2011.05.27__time_18_35_n03\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-879\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Desert:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/shot_2011.05.27__time_18_35_n04.png\"><img src=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/shot_2011.05.27__time_18_35_n04-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"shot_2011.05.27__time_18_35_n04\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-880\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foresty (there is a lightmapping problem on some of these trees so they are brighter than they should be!):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/shot_2011.05.27__time_18_34_n02.png\"><img src=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/shot_2011.05.27__time_18_34_n02-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"shot_2011.05.27__time_18_34_n02\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-878\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in the previous couple of updates, we are starting to take steps toward establishing the visual style of the game. This past week while I was on vacation, Shannon did a bunch of world editing, with the primary goal being to draft out a few areas of the \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2011\/05\/themed-areas\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}