Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

After working with the hair cards for awhile, it dawned on Pete that he could actually create a proxy texture that would easily troubleshoot the orientation of each card. During his first official pass, Pete was finally able to make the textures and shaders work in tandem. 3D Environmental Design. Level Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

This sprint, Fede was able to continue working on the soldiers and armor he'd started, polishing up details and working on intricate textures. After nailing the painting and texturing in Maya for the lantern, Joe then worked on properly setting up this model in Unreal Engine. Here are some shots of Fede's WIP. Take a look.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

We'll walk you through Nick's entire process for modeling and texturing these Twiggies in the comprehensive version of today's dev blog. This sprint, Joe refined his textures by adding in more color variation to the mushrooms and the crystals that can be seen on the lantern below. link] Rigging / Animation. Check it out!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Using a design from our concept art team as a guide, Hassan first began piecing together this stunning wooden abode, then carefully textured it to make it look properly aged and lived in. link] Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. link] [link] Kristala Original Soundtrack.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Now that both versions of the Cathedral models are complete, Cass can begin unwrapping the UV's before diving into the tedious texture work. This sprint, Karena was able to tackle the UVs and begin texturing. Rigging / Animation. Take a look! Here's a look at Nick's 3D version of the Myrtuna crest.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

We can't wait to see what all these look like when they're fully detailed, textured, and placed in the Kristala game build. Wanna see what this set looks like fully textured and detailed? The sprint, Karena was able to finally nail the crystal-like texture she was aiming for for this important item.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Although he'd already completed the base models and initial texturing for the Nisargan Impaler and Rosethorne Swords prior to this sprint, Cass spent some time this month further refining each design and finetuning its details. Here are two of the different texture variants Pete showed off this sprint. Rigging / Animation.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

After adding some rust to the texturing and bending and breaking a few of the rungs that comprise the gate's overall structure, we think Cass finally nailed it. 3D Generalist Joe was another talented team member to work on modeling and texturing a few props that will be handed off to our level designers and placed in Nisar (and beyond).

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With Lophi's model and textures nearly complete, Pete spent the first half of this sprint finetuning this beasty baddie's details and adding some additional flare to the character's fins and spines. Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. link] [link] [link] [link] Kristala Original Soundtrack.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

To draw the crosshair we use the Draw Texture node and we pass the texture we want to draw, X and Y coordinates, and the tint color. And the reason why is because we didn’t set the width and the height of the hud inside the Draw Texture node. So when we test the shooting now, this is how it looks like: Reloading The Gun.

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