Been doing some quick work on potential ‘sticker’ concepts, which are essentially painted on decorations you could add onto voxels. These are just a proposal for now, and would be nice to hear what people think. There’s potential for them to utilise special materials too, which has a bit of animation in it like you see in the oort shard. Would be nice to be able to stack and layer them up to create a unique design.
Feel free to share more ideas as this is still just up in the air and brainstorming.
Other example ideas are: bathroom sign, fire exit, musical notes, guild emblems, tiling patterns to allow players to create assortment of different designs depending on placement (like those terracotta blocks in Minecraft), player’s tag, spider webs…
The glyphs in particular are especially awesome, and something I’d love in-game. I’ve seen a lot of people writing in English, but I prefer Oortish, and to write anything currently you have to do so on a large scale. Those symbols would be soo useful.
That said, I’m wondering how these would work with rendering at distance and performance? I guess that’s something for you guys to work out, but I do love the idea of added detail.
I was of the opinion that much like Minecraft, the game would perhaps suffer from too much detail, and lose it’s block-like quality, but having built many structures, I now feel they’d benefit from added clutter and detailing. There’s this odd feeling once you finish something that all you really created was an empty space.
You’re giving us the option to express ourselves even more? Yes please! The glowing runes, engraved alphabets, animated stickers, guild emblems… definitely my favourite ones Especially if they all have bump mapping, heh.
If there were some that added a bit of grunge, rust, or general dirt we could use them to make things look old/aged?
Will we be able to use customised ones? Thining about custom Guild Glyphs.
Are you guys planning to have a whole ‘Stickers’ collection system, where you can craft basic ones, but have to find rarest ones in Special Places? And maybe a feat with X out of Y different stickers found? Or even more with a whole panel to see everyone discovered (I don’t know I have sum ideas)
Awesome Concept, i think the amount of details and layering would add a nice touch to an otherwise empty or bland room… Example: My Empty Soon to be Storage Room
Yeah! This is a really good idea. I can see loads of uses for these, especially if you can overlay them on top of one another.
Seeing the banners etc in number 4 would look cool if you could overlay the guild glyphs on them (and maybe change the colours of them as well!).
The planets would be cool if they actually represented the planets you can see in the sky! Imagine mapping out the star system on your building wall - that would be really cool!
I think these would ideal to be individually discoverable rewards for explorers finding one of the 50 locations on a planet … it would give you a reason to go looking for the locations and remember where they are (and trade location markers for those places!) … find a location, unlock a new decal!
OMG YES I cannot wait for these! The glyphs and cave paintings and “paint” splatters and glowy stars and that fried egg! My favorites are the ones that come as a bunch of …modules? components? little bits that we can stick together to make things as we like.
Here’s a handful of other random ideas because I was bored on the ride home from work:
rugs…in the color & pattern of the local wildstock
collection of shapes & symbols for making signs like you see on highways
Every time I see them at work I start thinking of stupid slogans for the Boundless worlds. It would be an amazing reward to get things like that for exploration
i have idea but dont know how lol
so when i want to cover up a ugly wall with a facade and mike like windows or big doors
somesticker to fill in opening so you dont see wall im covering
Though additional window (glass) blocks have been highly requested for quite a while. I’d also love new doors. It only seems fitting that we should be able to craft wood, stone, metal and perhaps even gleam and gem doors.
Especially if they all have bump mapping, heh.
especially the ones that can have volume on them for deeper decoration feeling.