Dev Diary 31! In the world of 3D shapes and colors (Patreon)

Hello mutants!

Another week goes by fast and it's time to reflect on the work being done.

Our "future releases locations" poll (  https://www.patreon.com/posts/40124902  ) is almost over and we can safely assume the winner is first option with 82% of votes:

Finish and release those related to the main plot first, then all the rest

As this outcome was more or less expected from the first days of poll going live, I started preparing for this by rendering, re-rendering and painting the art assets that were unfinished or missing. I already had over 6,000 assets from 2014. but now an incredible number of 1,082 new art pieces were remade in the last 7 days using the new graphical tools and my better skills as an artist. Not bad, huh? :D

I'm not finished yet since these files need to be ported into Fallout 2's engine and that will also take a bit of time. You can see some of the new mountains, mostly quite characteristic for the state of Arizona, in the screenshot.

Speaking of the art, I think it finally dawned on me why the caves were blueish in Fallout 1.
In a YT interview, Fallout 1 art director, Leonard Boyarsky said, the game didn't have enough blue and that's when I decided that the Vault jumpsuit will be blue. And the rest is history.

So after working on one area last week where the cavern, floor, and walls were all a different shade of brown, basically the whole area was brown, I realized that the blue cavern was the answer to make such locations less monotone.

Ever since Fallout 1 I thought these meshed together great since blue and brown/orange/yellow are complementary colors, and it gives that cold/wet feeling you'd expect in a cave.  However, I also remember we voted previously for the caverns to remain brown (  https://www.patreon.com/posts/36390181 ) . So I made a little "hack." 

I'll make the walls initially blue but put all of that into one small file inside the main folder. If you don't want blueish caverns, you'll just have to delete that one file and everything will be brown again. That's it.

Let me know what you think of this idea.

-PJ