Check out the awesome new lighting and rendering overhaul we just added to Pre-Release! This change is step one to upgrade CHKN’s graphics and look & feel. We’re still tweaking so please let us know your feedback, We think it looks pretty dang snazzy already so we wanted to share it with you first! (Click the screenshots below to see larger versions.)


Left is today’s game. Right is on Pre-Release. Note the lighting now has better detail (see horns) and sky is atmospheric (haze, clouds).


Venus flytrap in a new forest scene on Pre-Release (right). Fog effects plus color correction allows for warm night time atmosphere. Note the improved light reflecting off the eyes.


To the desert! The new skybox is in full effect (on right). The sunlight is scattered and reflected nicely off the beetle mouth... right before it bites your face.

Here are the technical details, if you’re into that sort of thing:

• Upgraded Visuals (Lighting, Colors, Rendering and Effects):
  
  • Switched lighting from gamma to linear model to produce much more accurate and realistic lighting
    
  • Switched from LDR to HDR rendering to produce more accurate colors and better shader effects
    
  • Upgraded skybox to a new dynamic system for better day/night cycle lighting, atmospheric scattering, advanced fog, and dynamic animated clouds
    
  • Added new post processing effects to tie it all together (color grading, motion blur, ambient occlusion, bloom, screen space reflection)