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The following diary will give you some insights into the development process of Lightshaft, Elude's Amiga demo that ranked 2nd at Breakpoint 2009.
March 15th Ufff... yep - the fun begins. For the beginning I tried to practice moving skyboxes. It looks quite pretty for a start. I thought that there would be some problems with that, but all proves easy to do. Chaser sent me his first attempts at music.
March 16th Since early this morning I have been listening to a crying Kiero. He messed up some code, and of course he doesn't know where. The only thing that he knows is that it is not working. Today I am trying to make an animated skybox with industrial interior of some factory or something like that. Browsing google I saw a nice picture of a girl with flowers on the back. That inspired me to make a similar model - nice contrast to the dark, industrial scene.
March 17th Kiero sent me the first two animations with effects that he was working on. Landscape and ribbon lighting a hexe field. It looks quite nice. We attempt to put the factory scene into Kiero's engine. After some fixes, it all works pretty well.
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March 18th Another day, another scene. Today I made a wall with telephone cables - nothing special.
March 20th We started creating a lit tunnel. Before we came up with something satisfactory, we changed models/textures a few times. After all this it is looking really good. I tried to make yet another movable skybox - a subway tunnel (after all this - we decide to not include this scene in the demo).
March 21st Another attempt on the scene with the wall. We tried to make two different textures with some gradient diffusion - so I must change some things.
March 22nd I basically have not done anything today - laziness is a blessing. Kiero fights with yet another effect - lightning ball - the only thing I do is ...cheer?!...
March 24th Chaser sent me a new version of the music. Really good stuff. When we tried to make another scene - It turned out that it's impossible to put all our ideas in one place (about a 1k faces scene, lots of textures, and ball with bolts). So, we decide to replace the ball with the ribbon.
March 25th Today I try to make a storyboard. It's high time to write down all effects and scenes which we already have, and which we must still create.
March 26th And we have a final name - "Lightshaft" (changed from "Angst").
March 27th It's probably our most "busy" day. Kiero watched Rambo3 (lol!). Today Chaser came to visit me, so we drank a beer, ate some fat food, and watched old amiga demos.
March 29th Well - today I made a hi-poly statue - Baking textures, optimizing shapes. I also fixed some parts with the room/library. I found some polygons which I can delete.
March 30th Today I made a tunnel with rotating rings and a glow effect it looks nice!
April 2nd We started some testing with a growing object. Unfortunately when I made the model, I made some mistakes, and and it all didn't come together as I had hoped. Even worse, Kiero decided to make his own synchro of camera and music.
April 3rd One day until BreakPoint - Ok, I confess... I'm angry, confused, disappointed.... hard to tell - generally it's not good. There is no time and we must delete two effects. I really seriously think about canceling this demo, and (a little bit) ... whine?! - Kiero is also disappointed.
A few hours until we leave for the airport. We sit and try to fix some little bugs (for example Kiero forgot to put in a "loading" screen)!
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