26/10/16 - Production Studio (Interactive) - World Building

Guess who'd pretty much forgotten that this was a thing that still needed updating?
Yeah.

So lately I've been working on the character model, and helping Ethan out with building the level in 3D, by roughing out concepts of how each area might look in terms of tree placement, lighting, colours etc.

I've done three areas, including the base beach, the jungle/forest, and the cave.

I also worked out that for the placement of objects outside of the path, the world should be broken down into four lanes (with a fifth coming into play for the forest/jungle).

In all areas, lanes C and D would be the player lanes, with the character centred along the dotted line, leaving lanes B and E for background and foreground objects respectively. When entering the jungle, the map would slowly extend out a fifth lane (A), which would create space in which to place a second lane of trees.
Potentially along the dotted line of A, for all maps, we may have an illustrated background to represent the distance, to save on modelling and time.