voxelproof wrote:
... or which do you prefer: square or round in-game Sun and Moon?
To me, sun and moon are just decorative elements in the background. The sun is to stay high up in the sky and only rarely allowed to set. Darkness makes both building and sightseeing harder and is seldom wanted. The moon has some time ago turned into Saturn.
I must admit I have more reverence for these celestial bodies. I noticed that it matters, probably it is perceived subconciously. I think that how sky looks like makes a significant part of general ambience of the game.
To me, both may be true at diffrent times and in diffrent situations. When detailled models, arches, stairs, fences and the like are used, the blocky background serves just as a way to fascilitate creating what I have in mind. The voxel world acts as a simple 3d editor. That is one way of seeing it - and for a given building/project it may be all there is. Yet the beauty of the simplicity of the voxels cannot be discarded. True beauty and art can often be found in structures using only voxels and nothing else. Say..it's easier to build something acceptable-looking if you have decorative doors, windows, high-poly models and plenty of blocks to choose from. It's more demanding to use just a small set of full blocks to achieve a good result, where blocks need to be used to just hint at something without beeing able to really show all the details like in a photography. So, in the end, both are diffrent ways to use voxel-like games to create something. Diffrent styles/methods of drawing. Just because they may achieve diffrent outcomes doesn't mean that one is obsolete or superior to the other.
I agree with every sentence in this part. I'd add that the second way you've written about is imo analogous to pixel art - maybe 'voxel art' would be a good term for it.
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voxelproof wrote:
I agree with every sentence in this part. I'd add that the second way you've written about is imo analogous to pixel art - maybe 'voxel art' would be a good term for it.
That sounds like a good idea. There is pixelart that is 3d, but it's diffrent from 'voxel art' where a block usually represents more than one pixel but not necessarily itself either.
