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Initial Art Direction Notes (Emotion (Ownership, Creation, Safe Fantasy…

- - - - mmo
      - Blockchain
      - low poly
- - - - Lighting
        
        night time lighting contrast is really extream
      - inconsistently detail amount
        
        textures are all gone but then there are fine detials in leaves, grass etc.
      - Gradients accross solids are critical to break things up
      - Color theory
        
        Everything is brown
      - Need to bring sky into this style
        
        hyper realistic clouds
      - non stylized water
      - themes/Locations should play to low poly strengths
        
        Ice
        
        Sands/pyramids
        
        Crystals
        
        Pine Trees
      - Tech
        
        Detail Maps/Imposters
        
        LOD Macro/Micro
    - - Animation is stiff (other player walking?)
    - - Segmented first person hands
      - Focus on Shape & eyes
      - Consistent body stylization anatomy
    - - Particles (embers) are not 'low poly' inspired flames are
      - needs to be consistent with the world aesthetic
    - - Clean fantasy minimlistic
      - Diegetic
- - - - Icon style
      - Screens
      - HUD
    - - Keep it simple, keep it flexible
      - Limit animation, keep it responsive
      - Form follow function... need function first
- - - - Wild Life
        
        Animation/Behavior Needs
      - Exemplar
        
        Base
        
        Additional body proportions
        
        Gear
        
        weapons
        
        armor
        
        Cosmetics
        
        beards and hair
        
        crowns, earings, masks etc.
        
        Faces
        
        Blinks
        
        Mouths
        
        will there be more?
        
        will NPCs use these faces?
      - NPC
        
        who are our NCPs?
        
        Goblin
        
        foot soldier
        
        Archer
        
        Mother ?
        
        Brute
        
        Rework!
        
        https://mirandus.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MIRANDUS/pages/112820225/Goblin+Lore+and+Background
        
        Minatuar
        
        Human NPC???
        
        Animation/Behavior Needs
      - Noble Steeds (low Priority)
        
        saddles for races
        
        body types
        
        Customization ?
    - - Finalize Noble Steeds
        
        Gear
        
        Cosmetics
        
        Base
        
        Noble Steeds
        
        Horses
      - Exemplar
        
        Review Shader complexity
        
        Concept Females
        
        Race
        
        Concept Skin Variety
        
        Concept Cultural cues
        
        Tattoos
        
        Traditions
        
        Important values
        
        Model New Proportions/style Males
      - NPC
        
        Focus on the Goblin Race
        
        Culture
        
        Biology
        
        See design Clarity
      - Clean up Wildlife
        
        See original notes from Matt
    - - How to build Exemplars
        
        Review this old pipeline
        
        https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOVNhdgs=/
        
        Request for a an engine side gear creator
        
        engine side could be less data to manage
        
        Gear interrogability
        
        weigh in M Gear
      - tech constraints defined
        
        confluence the outcomes
        
        Need a test doing Normal vs shading groups
        
        Arturo needs to provide current constraints
- - - - Lighting
        
        Day Night
        
        AO
        
        Bounced Light
      - Imposters
      - Zone Loading
      - Weather
      - Grass/Leaves
      - Unity Research to advance the speed and tech
      - Performance budgets
      - Dynamic placement
        
        Structures
        
        Hearvestables
      - Tools
        
        Editor tools
        
        Client Tools
        
        Add to Paul's tools page:
    - - Player structures:
        
        Plots
        
        Taverns
        
        Stables
        
        Hitching Posts
        
        Interior spaces
        
        See design list
        
        Deed
        
        empty available plot/deeds
      - Terrain
        
        Incline walkable vs not walkable
        
        Understanding of the full Map
        
        Biomes
        
        Water safe vs not safe
        
        Depth Fogging
        
        hearvestable
        
        climbing/ slopes/ combat
        
        Combat spaces defined
        
        Cliff edges (safety, how we treat these?)
        
        Surface smoothness for first person cam
        
        Jump height
        
        Nav mesh rules
      - Zones
        
        automated depth map and albedo bakes that get applied to meshes as displacement and color.
        
        we need to build the world in a "for realz" way without tricks from one load to another so things can line up and match geographically.
        
        zones to strictly respect the 1 kilometer rule
        
        view distance, into different zones (how many)
    - - Simplification
      - Style consistancy
      - Story Telling
- - - - Rigging Skinning Pipeline
        
        M Gear
        
        Rigger/Tech Animator
      - MXM Pipeline -- get creation reliable
      - Engineering support for prototyping
      - testing game... no god mode
      - Meet/Maxi, Ricky, Noah & Mike
    - - Blocking for Combat
      - Realistic(?) Movement:
        
        Movement speeds (have first pass)
        
        we want realistic movement
        
        we also want to be able to sprint backward
        
        What are are goals for movement?
        
        How are we handling Slopes?
        
        Sneak?
      - Question for design, what can we mock up... what would you like to see first?
      - Harvesting animations? (For the Demo)
- - - - Getting everyone Using Source Control
        
        Google Drive Vs P4
        
        P4
        
        Plastic?
        
        Acountabilty
        
        Large data sets that turn get tangled
        
        Versioning naming issues
        
        Google Drive
        
        Milstone Variants should be preserved as .01, .02 etc.
        
        Simple
        
        Do we really need more features/expense
      - Naming and location standards
      - Animation Pipeline
      - Branching Pipeline (Git)
      - Scale!
        
        We should be using 1unit=1Meter
        
        Character/Animation reports that they are in cm
    - - Trees/Shrubs
      - Skies
      - Elements
    - - Is this art approach actually making us performant? Are our constraints working?
      - Do's and don'ts for disciplines
      - is this approach fast enough to make?
- - - - Elements
        
        Fire
        
        Rock
        
        Water
        
        Lightning
        
        Ice
        
        Nature/Growth
        
        Air
      - Health
        
        Poison
        
        Life
      - Magic
        
        Dark
        
        Light
        
        Death Resurection
        
        Mind
        
        Mana
      - Combat
        
        Swipe FX
        
        Bow/ Arrow
        
        Hit FX
      - Style: Graphic Performant style
    - - VFX prefabs in [UI] maybe all we need is a shader solution to correct the layer/sorting issues?(https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/ui-particle-system-108285)
        
        3rd Party Asset store
      - Skills (Abilities) timeline for combat
        
        3rd Party asset store option
      - Save in Playmode
        
        3rd Party asset store
      - To support VFX instancing in VFX Graph Unity Update to 2022.2
    - - Phil has list of needs
- - - - Materium
      - Cultures
        
        Architecture
        
        History
        
        Symbology
      - Easter Eggs
    - - World
        
        Biomes
        
        Terrain/Flora/Sky
      - Characters
        
        Exemplars
        
        Nobel Steed
        
        NPC
        
        work on them as a race/culture
      - FX
        
        Spells
        
        Elements
    - - World
        
        Harvestable Objects
        
        Player structures
      - Characters
        
        Exemplar
        
        Nobel Steeds
        
        NPC
- - - - Symbology/mythology
      - Archetecture
  - - - Fauna (link to Creatures)
      - Geographic Features
      - Flora