Nov 21 Update

 I'm working on coloring in some of the subway assets. As a relaxation exercise from the exam failure, I messed around with the lighting in ALAWT. I found a lot of the places were quite bland, which I don't think has to be true for a horror game, so I adjusted the saturation and contrast in the lighting. Since this is Lea's office which is a relatively safe spot, I let it stay a warmer orange color. I ramped up the fog a bit so there's actually hidden corners. I was mainly looking at screenshots of Labrys and older screenshots of Practice Round and realized there were some really nice colorful screens there that I just kind of ... dropped in ALAWT, probably due to the horror aspect. I was thinking of desaturating it, but I think I took it a step too far. I still stayed away from stuff like volumetric fog and sdfgi. I'm still trying to aim for a game that can run on a sub 300 budget laptop...provided you're using AMD of course. I put the old one at the bottom to compare, but I think that in general this new lighting would be more in line with Practice Round (old) and Labrys look.





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