Hi everyone,
My name is Robert Briscoe and as you may or may not have heard, I have taken it upon myself recently to ‘re-master' Dear Esther and bring it up to its true potential. With the support of Dan he has generously allowed me access to the DE ModDB page so that I can post updates here as well as on my blog. With this in mind I thought I'd post some info and media from this week's update...
Since my last update I have been focusing on getting three things done; firstly creating and applying basic textures for the terrain e.g. rock, sand grass etc, and lastly, painting and sculpting the terrain. In this pass my goal was to create the most convincing landscape possible without the use of any models or additional assets. This was mainly to push myself to make use of the crazy amount of displacements in the map and also to ensure the textures I was producing were of a good enough quality to stand on their own, the results of which can be seen below:
For more info and media head on over to my devblog.
Truly beautiful.
This looks really really great, never thought this was possible with Source!
I really enjoyed the first DE. But this looks truly amazing. I love how people can experiment with non violent games.
This will surely make me re-play it. The terrain is just great. I don't even want to envision how long it'll take to compile tho. But still, hands down the best displacement work anyone has done for the Source engine.
Approved ! It's look good now !
Dude, that terrain is.. outstanding.
Absoloutely sublime
I'm totally impressed of your work, looking forward for further updates.
Simply spectacular
Excellent mapping work Robert... top marks...
wow!
Amazing.
wow, great job creating some really natural looking terrain.
That's very great for the Source engine! How did you add in those real looking shrubs and grass?
i loved the original, hope this is as good!
That is so amazing, keep up the good work.
Wow. that looks amazing, haven't seen anything like that before in source.
Really good textures and lighting!
Fantastic work Rob, this is really exciting!
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god damn!
I thought dear ester looked quite good to start with, but ****, that looks perfect.
What about making a tutorial so we can learn how do you geet this awesome results??
The old textures and models were fine, but now, by golly! A great game made into a true work of art on all aspects. Exciting :)
These look topnotch Rob,watched your vid on the mesh work your doing truly awesome
Looks absolutely stunning.
OK, you made me I'll play it one more time...
That looks absolutely amazing. This is one of my favourite single player mods of all time, and to see it presented in such an amazing fashion is fantastic. That was my only qualm with the original. The voice acting and musical score was superb, but the mapping had a few that sorta broke the immersion. I found that understandable given that it was such an ambitious project, but you seem to be able to make a truly remarkable contribution to an already fantastic mod. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress. Best of luck.
wow... very well done lads. Keep it up :D
Jaw dropping work! Loved the mod and this is sure to bring a new lease of life to it. Are you planning on maybe helping with Korsakovia if this turns out well? Only I'd love to see this standard in the maps in that :)