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Azure Midsummer

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Pixels, 3D & tech art and fashion :: 35 - Intersex & transfeminine (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️. Finnish. 💜 disaster lesbian besties w/ @lavender.pet 💜 Been doing game art since 2004 if you're into that sorta thing. - millenia3d.net -

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Azure Midsummer @millenia3d.net · Oct 17

Quake 2 Remastered, weapon pickups/third-person models (2023)

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I'd already left my job by the point I came out but everyone I talked to from there afterwards was super supportive and it was very heartwarming to see

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a cartoon says well my work is done here with a train in the background

ALT: a cartoon says well my work is done here with a train in the background

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i might have to take inspo from that town shot when i redo that scene eventually if you don't mind haha (i'll definitely credit you if i do)

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that's sick as hell, i always love the arcane sorcery you pull off with the EGA look and i'm glad i'm not the only one who loves this game 👉😎👉

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and here's a shot with no cropping so you can see it in the context of the whole UI

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pistol icon before/after. really happy with how this one came out, looks fantastic ingame

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yeah that's much better. kinda handy the UI elements are in many cases just against black so i can put some pretty nice antialiasing in

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another thing i probably won't want to touch much is the creature/player sprites since i'm not great at that stuff but i think it'd look pretty swish even just replacing UI/background/font assets with new ones

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yeah, i've always really wanted to see what this game would look like with a dedicated artist - obvs i'm gonna be limited by what i can do since i don't want to dig deep into code/systems with a modding tool but it'll be cool to see how far i can push it just by replacing assets

Azure Midsummer @millenia3d.net · 1d

quick ingame test. think i'll tweak the shading to blend into the black background nicer

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special shoutout to the undertale modding scene for making the tools that work pretty much perfectly for this game too lol

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ingame shot of the originals for context - always had a very soft spot for this game even if it looks very.. "flash game"

would be neat to basically remaster the visuals myself since there isn't all *that* much to do and i doubt we'll ever get an official update to this game again

Azure Midsummer @millenia3d.net · 1d

been messing around with modding The Consuming Shadow today, managed to disable all the texture filtering and changing the resolution the game renders at to eliminate most blurring (which already makes the game look a lot better)

experimenting with UI graphics now, here's a 9mm bullet before/after:

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lad casually severing the thread of prophecy

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I'm actually messing around with modding the graphics in the consuming shadow today, it's such a cool little game

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apple's products have a baffling amount of immense polish mixed with the most poorly thought out ux flow and it's quite something to behold at times 😆

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counterpoint: there's something special about making comical quantities of things

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the use of the chunky clusters for the shading is just beautiful

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always stunning

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"Cybermeat" would make a hell of a band name

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I spend about half of the year leaving the house as little as possible because I do not like the cold 😆

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I can respect doing something relatively safe and executing it really well (ff9) but yeah it just doesn't move me the same way as taking those colossal swings and pulling it off enough where the misses just enhance the overall experience

to aspire yet err is humanity at its core, after all

Azure Midsummer @millenia3d.net · 4d

yeah I just like how they tried different things with the junctions and how GFs work in general, you get such insane bursts of power when you know how to work the system

and of course triple triad, the uncrowned GOAT of mini games

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god I love ff8. I know it's the bastard child of the ps1 trilogy but to me it's just as good as 7 and 9