Led by the mysterious and enigmatic leader Deer, the Therians took what Terratech they could get their paws on and scattered throughout the fragmenting Star Union to find a place they could call home. Society’s outcasts were the first to suffer at the hands of these experiments, eventually forming a cult-like status after their transformations proved too radical to continue as part of normal society. Like all research that could ‘enhance’ humans, it didn’t take long for Terratech to get their hands on this new technology, altering and transforming those who could pay, no cost too great in attempts to perfect this new process.

How realistic should it be? What fits best with the art style? Physical Based Rendering (PBR) gave some great results but it had as drawback that it can make things look too washed out, reducing the colorfulness, and we really wanted to create colorful planets! In the end we made some modifications to the PBR algorithms until they gave the results we wanted.īelow is a screen shot that demonstrates how the surrounding environment, in this case just the terrain, influences the lighting of the object.Born from tragic experiments to save a dying scientist’s wife from a ravaging genetic disease, the Therian Project was meant to fuse stable animal DNA with humans that were afflicted with incurable diseases. We spent quite some time figuring out what kind of lighting technique would be best for Planetfall.

The second project we started was focused on improving the visuals. At the time, we were really struggling getting all the DLC content running within the ~3GB memory limit and the modders among you will also know that this really limits what you can do when you want to add cool new units and structures. The first thing we decided to do after the release of AoW3 was to move over to 64bit. We’ve been working very hard to improve the Creator engine for Planetfall and I’ve been asked to write this week’s Dev Diary about some of the big changes we’ve made. Hi there, here is some news from the tech department.

Age of wonders: planetfall dev diaries