With that I mean the under colour, not the light caught in the ripples....

It looks like an early Dreamcast-era game with the vibrant colors. I like the slick HUD though.

Looks nice Nadestar, the water looks good if
you ask me but can use some more shader effects.
But when everybody makes a new level or think it is complete, it still
can use some adjustments to make it look more perfectly

I like the jetracer and the terrains.
The enviroment looks great, it brought me into that nice and very
needed summer time, I hate winter

Oh btw is the link form the demo of Biyu Biyu Rocket
being fixed because, the game looks so gread, I really want to give
the game a shot but also and the most important part because I want to find
some bugs in the game ====> it's really hard to find
some bugs into your games Nadestar

Overall nice screens !!!!

Water deserves some kind of shader, need not be truly reflective, simple environment-mapping would do the trick.
Use more than one sprite for grass so it does not look flat.
Try placing wake sprites parallel to the water surface in addition to the particles.
Great HUD !

I agree about the HUD, it's awesome. From the screnies it looks like the camera is fixed solid behind the boat. It would look better with a little lag.

While the HUD and the boat are quite bright, the terrain and sky are a bit dull. Brightening them up would make everything fit together better.

great work, the only two things i dont like are:

1) the plants look like they are scaled wrong
2) the particles behind the boat look too white all in all, this effect looks noobish and needs to be improved because the player will look all the time at this.

keep it up

About the water, we have gone through various tests and we're still deciding on how to handle it, so don't worry, it'll look good when the demo comes

here are some very early water tests older than the screenshots posted at the beginning of the topic

I've been tossing around with Sphere. The major problem is that the vehicle will go nuts and fly all over the screen when the fps is low (less than 20). I'm not sure if this is a thing with A6PE and the shape of the boat, or just the physics script, but I've seen the same thing happen before in other games.

@Kalin, get on AIM dude

Yes, this would probably due to the A6PE, i've experienced the same thing. I wouldn't advise you revolving your main gameplay around the physics engine because of it. This should be offset though if you mess with these, but then your FPS will go even lower to balance things out:

Code:

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 ph_setcontacts(vector(100000, 0,0), 0,0,0); // make contacts really hard
 PH_FPS_MAX_LOCK = 50;
 ph_iterations = 5;
 PH_CHECK_DISTANCE = 9;
 ph_setautodisable(100,100,100,100); // turn off
 time_smooth=0.5;//dont set at "1", bug with physics engine 

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