SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS PS2 QUADRATUS HOW TO

The vertex colors are also used to blend the borders of the layers and smooth the transition of the fur with the skin. These textures are only with shade of grey, the color of the fur comes with the vertex colors. The alpha texture used to blend the whole fur is maybe common and smaller, there is a 64Г—64 pixels texture used as the base for the fur which can be used as an alpha texture. So the layers are divided in 3 groups, 2 layers use the same diffuse texture. There is 1 single fur texture but in 3 versions : white, grey and one more darker (but not black). The layers are spaced with the equivalent of the height of the playerвЂ™s hand (I know, that a strange reference). 6 is the common number, but some Colossis can go higher (the first one has 8 layers for example). The Fur applied for the big parts of the Colossi are a set of polygon layers. While the tufts are cool to see, they are in a very limited number, they are mostly used the give a better transitions between the parts with and without fur.

The tufts are very simple to understand, they are just simple planes (a single quad grouped) to give the feeling of a tufts. (Note that they use a similar one for the grass ingame in certain areas.) So, how does the FUR work exactly ? The Colossi use 2 different techniques to display the Fur : a set of planar polygons and some tufts (single quads). IвЂ™m amazed on how clever their technique is.

This is certainly the main reason why I wanted to extract and look inside the game : understand THEIR fur technique. And even if the making of Shadow of Colossus explain a bit how they have done this part of the Colossi, it is still a bit blurred in my mind.

SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS PS2 QUADRATUS HOW TO

I have done some search on how to generate fur for real-time rendering and I found some papers here and here. The first thing which fascinated me in the game was of course the Colossi and especially the fur on them which give an incredible look to them. The purpose is educational and the work presented here go to their respective authors. So the following blog post is a breakdown of the game from my personal point of view (I donвЂ™t know at all how it was made originally). If you are also interested about the story and the environments I recommend you to read the blog of Nomad. IвЂ™m interested about the technical side only. I started some month ago to try to go deeper on how the game was made. IвЂ™m still amazed about how they were able to handle so impressive Colossi and environments on a console like the Playstation 2.

ItвЂ™s an important influence for my own projects today. Quadratus' corpse can be seen as the credits roll.IвЂ™m a big fan of the game Shadow of the Colossus. It will later combine with the other fifteen parts to form Dormin, who will possess Wander and later be banished by Lord Emon. This fragmental part of Dormin will bring Wander back to the Shrine of Worship, where he will be prepared to face his next foe. Once all vitals have been stabbed, Quadratus will die, collapsing to the ground and releasing the fragmented essence of Dormin contained within its body. He must then make his way to the vitals on Quadratus' back and head (and left side in Hard mode) and stab them, all while Quadratus is trying to shake him off. Wander must shoot the bottom of its feet when it rises up to stomp on him, causing Quadratus to fall over and allow Wander access to its back. It will burst out of the cave when it sees Wander come near and attack him, attempting to step on him. Quadratus is the second colossus that he encounters, hiding in a seaside cave underneath the bridge to the north of the Shrine. When a young man named Wander trespasses in the Forbidden Lands and asks the disembodied spirit of Dormin to resurrect his deceased lover Mono, Dormin agrees under the condition that Wander kills all of the sixteen colossi (tricking Wander into releasing his essence so he may be reborn). He set them all to wander the Forbidden Lands, destroying anyone that comes their way, so that Dormin could never be resurrected. Quadratus and the other fifteen Colossi were created by Lord Emon to contain the fragmented essence of the defeated evil Dormin.

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