The Weather Is So Miserable…It’s Perfect!

It’s no secret I love everything Autumn, especially the weather! I’ve tried my best to capture what it is that I percieve to be the visuals and “atmosphere” of Fall weather. It’s such a unique mood and I’m still surprised that it isn’t used more often in games.

I just uploaded a video of one of the early levels to show some rainy atmosphere. I could add a few more effects to it but as it stands I think it gets the idea across. I’m getting over 60 frames despite all the particles being spawned so I’m really happy with that. I find that I have to keep myself in check these days because I have a tendency to throw caution to the wind and go really overboard with effects. I don’t want this turning out to be the same slideshow as the mod version!

I don’t have much to report other than I’m still hammering away at the Police Station level (it’s a lot of work fixing that map) but I haven’t run into any problems with it; it’s just time-consuming. I also fixed a bunch of monster AI bugs that have been haunting me for months so that’s a huge relief.

One thing that I actually spent a lot of time doing (and re-doing) was the voice acting portion. There isn’t much of it but I actually found it a lot more difficult to perform than I thought! Sometimes what you think that you hear when you speak into the mic sounds a lot different when you open it up on the computer for editing. I recorded everything using my phone (which isn’t as bad as you would think) but a while ago I had set up a little recording space in a storage room of mine. Over the weeks I moved stuff around and when I came back weeks later to record some more voices, the sound came out way different (more hollow sounding) So I had to set up another room, re-recorded all the voices so the quality stayed consistent and kept the room exactly the same incase I need to record more down the line. I definately have a newfound respect for all voice actors now!

I’ll try to get a video of the Police Station up next. See you soon!