Enigma by 'we' do you mean yourself or someone else?
I'm currently putting 3D models of the characters into the game rather than using dirty great bit bitmaps, this means, more animation, smoother animation and smoother rotations. It also gives us the ability to use dx lighting which could look rather groovy. First experiments are looking good.
I would post a screenshot but quite frankly it looks identical to the other screenshots, when you play the game though it's much better.
The downside of this is that I've got to do decent animation for all of the characters, aliens, the works. Probably do pain and attack animations for the aliens too just to put the cherry on the top. This does suck big time so if anyone out there is a good modeller, rigger, or animator, please step forward as the media demand has just increased!!
The rough and ready animation and rigging I did to get the plain old top down sprites just doesn't cut it when you use actual 3D models.
I'm currently putting 3D models of the characters into the game rather than using dirty great bit bitmaps, this means, more animation, smoother animation and smoother rotations. It also gives us the ability to use dx lighting which could look rather groovy. First experiments are looking good.
I would post a screenshot but quite frankly it looks identical to the other screenshots, when you play the game though it's much better.
The downside of this is that I've got to do decent animation for all of the characters, aliens, the works. Probably do pain and attack animations for the aliens too just to put the cherry on the top. This does suck big time so if anyone out there is a good modeller, rigger, or animator, please step forward as the media demand has just increased!!
The rough and ready animation and rigging I did to get the plain old top down sprites just doesn't cut it when you use actual 3D models.