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Article #292163Re: STARCRAFT 2 is being shown, NOW
From: Luc The Perverse
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:09
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:09
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"Thomas J. Boschloo" <nos...@hccnet.nl> wrote in message news:465d523b$0$23203$e4fe514c@dreader11.news.xs4all.nl... > Luc The Perverse wrote: >> "Thomas J. Boschloo" <nos...@hccnet.nl> wrote in message >> news:465be929$0$5520$e4fe514c@dreader13.news.xs4all.nl... >>> Luc The Perverse wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> I do think it is silly that they spent so muh time making War III 3D - >>>> and >>>> then people play it from the default view angle just like SC anyway - >>>> but >>>> it >>>> was nice for the non cinematic "talking scenes" throughout the >>>> mission - >>>> and >>>> I guess they needed practice making 3D game to get SC 2 right >>> With 2D it seems harder to me to get the shadows right. >>> >>> These days I want shadows and light effects in my games :-) >>> >>> Like 'uh oh, long shadow as the mushroom cloud is still low to the >>> surface, then extreme brightness, seems someone set me up the bomb!' >>> (just using my imagination here) >>> >>> Thomas >> >> Of course the shadows aren't going to be right . . you know what . . >> nevermind. >> >> I'm sure SC2 will be better for you > > Plus that animated polygon objects scale better than sprites :-) Now > that should also make some sense to you in this age of fixed resolution > flat screen monitors. It always made sense. 3D is better than 2D - it just takes more work -- LTP :)
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