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New Voxelus Video Released

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Now this looks familiar.

If this works without VR, I'll be happy.
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I hope you don't mind I updated the title to be a little bit more descriptive!

But, gosh that is really really neat to see! It is very reminiscent of Atmosphir and rather or not I will be able to play it-- I am still very very excited for those who can!
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StreetLights wrote: Now this looks familiar.

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Very familiar...
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I'm not exactly sure what they're going for here. Is it a game? A modelling tool? Frankly, it looks like it'd suck at both of those things, with crappy unity textures and models. Atmosphir may have been a great level creator, but it was awful at building environments.
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This is Voxelus. It looks as a 7 year old game should.
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This is Unreal Engine 4. This scene was created in 4 hours by moving and placing models on a flat terrain. I know which one I'd prefer to walk around in VR.

Voxelus doesn't bring anything new to the table in a cluttered market. It prides itself on ease of use, but why should I limit myself to a decaying engine when I can just as easily grab a few models off the Unreal Marketplace and do it better, with little to no extra effort?
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OkaySandwich wrote:I'm not exactly sure what they're going for here. Is it a game? A modelling tool? Frankly, it looks like it'd suck at both of those things, with crappy unity textures and models. Atmosphir may have been a great level creator, but it was awful at building environments.
Let me walk around my lego creations in peace. :(
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Hope we get secret game testing here.
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Ahh... imaginary Lego- err, I mean virtual building brick games. Yeah.
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Carries basically the same message but shows a little more of the editor:

https://vimeo.com/131821477#t=57s
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Blazingplatinum wrote:Carries basically the same message but shows a little more of the editor:

https://vimeo.com/131821477#t=57s
There was one part in the video where you could see Atmosphir's factory tiles... The exact same ones..
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we've known for a long time that they're reusing assets from atmosphir, at least for testing purposes.
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But you can also see a lot more custom stuff.
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Connormon99 wrote:But you can also see a lot more custom stuff.
Because you can import 3ds and obj files.
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That's cool. Now I'm exited.
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This background looks very familiar XD
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Honestly, at a first glance I prefer how the Atmosphir designer UI looks over Vox, but I won't judge it before I actually use it. Maybe it works better? We'll see.

Also, I don't think we were supposed to be able to see that yet, lol. I found multiple dead links on the site.
OkaySandwich wrote:I'm not exactly sure what they're going for here. Is it a game? A modelling tool?
Not really a game. As martin described it to me, it's "a tool for developing VR experiences".

I'm sure things like getting from point a to point b (find the finish flag on atmo) are still present though. It'll be interesting to find out if they left the enemies in there. The AIs and animations would work for the ones that they already made, but I'm curious as to how things like importing your own model for use as an NPC would work.
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bionicnacho wrote:This background looks very familiar XD

Not really a game. As martin described it to me, it's "a tool for developing VR experiences".

I'm sure things like getting from point a to point b (find the finish flag on atmo) are still present though. It'll be interesting to find out if they left the enemies in there. The AIs and animations would work for the ones that they already made, but I'm curious as to how things like importing your own model for use as an NPC would work.
Keep in mind though, Atmosphir was frequently advertised as a tool rather than a game. Perhaps Voxelus is to become a VR counterpart of what Atmosphir was initially intended to be, or perhaps the term 'tool' is being rather ambiguous as we have seen in the past.

Either way, everyone is going about pointing out things that appear similar between Atmosphir and Voxelus but if you take note during the video of things that appear different, you will realize how very different the two are. While the decals and themes of the environments have maintained a similar style to Atmosphir, there is really several more dimensions and depths to voxelus than Atmosphir ever had. Just based on the videos at least.
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With Voxelus being an extension of Atmosphirs existing tech, could be that you could make 'experiences' 100% reminiscent of Atmosphir (aside from fpv) as well as experiences that are far from it.

I'm sure Voxelus will have some appeal to those wanting to quickly make an experience without the hassle of programming. Some people might find they dont mind the graphical sacrifice of not doing the complex work themselves.

However, that being said. Thats assuming Voxelus wont give people the choice of customizing shaders. Unity 5 has some veeery customizable built in shader options, and they can be configured in realtime.

Take a look of this video of Smashy Ball (my game) which is made in the same engine as Voxelus. All of the mechanics in this game are very close to mechanics available in Atmosphir's repetoire., aside from dynamic block spawning, spinning blocks, and post effects. All my lighting uses the default Unity shaders (though the below example uses Unity 4).
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