Project Description
 BiographyBungie Software is a corporation dedicated to the production of outstanding, immersive electronic games that surpass the boundaries of conventional game technology and provide compelling and highly repeatable play. Makers of the multi-award-winning Pathways Into Darkness, Marathon and Marathon 2: Durandal, Bungie has captured the hearts of countless computer gamers since 1991. "StudioPro is the most stable 3-D rendering program in its price range. Features like camera positioning are more intuitive than in similar programs and other features, like Metaballs, are just cool to work with."-Doug Zartman |
StudioPro
was used for a number of key shapes in Marathon 2: Durandal. In a
game that involves combating lots of aliens with a variety of weapons, all
of the weapons, some of the larger decorative objects, and three alien types
(the Probe, Juggernaut and Defender) were all rendered with StudioPro. The
Defender only appears near the end of the game, but as the fabled lost clan
of the S'pht race, they play a major role in the plot.
The
next step was importing a color map, and importing textures I had already
made into the bump map. A few experiments led to a bump pattern that gave
the Defender the desired look of sophisticated, but ancient, technology.
StudioPro's raytracing feature allowed us to try out various lighting effects
from the different positions the alien would take in the game.