![]() ![]() ![]() Here you also can find the frog trap and Gehn's lab. This is the island with the lake, the boiler, the wood chipper and green lake inside the island's great crater. This is the island with the village, the lake with the sub, the great jungle and the sunner's lagoon. Here is the Beetle Room, the Golden Dome, the Temple and the Telescope. HyperCard for prototyping the game/exporting data files to Broderbund/Sunsoft/etc.Media Cleaner Pro for movie compression.DeBabelizer and PhotoShop for texture editing/compositing/touchups.The program is made famous for the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. SoftImage 3D is for SGI (Silicon Graphics Indigo) Workstations. ![]() The primary modeling/animation program used in RIVEN was SoftImage 3D, with LumeShaders doing different effects such as water, clouds, and wet surfaces. Graphics and Construction tools used in RIVEN: If you've seen both the Mac and PC versions of MYST, you know the difference. Brøderbund had been working on better visual effects since MYST, likening RIVEN graphics to those in the Mac version of MYST. RIVEN was in the making for over four years.Īlthough the Graphics Engine for RIVEN isn't the exact same engine as was used for MYST, it is very similar. Intricate detail can be found throughout RIVEN, from wind-shifted topsoil blanketing a mountainside, to the knotted woodgrain of a table top, to RIVEN shimmering water, which undulates, reflects and glints in the sun. A single RIVEN island is represented by about 2.5 million triangles. At the time the game was made, the various islands which make up RIVEN was the largest wireframe models anyone had been working with. Some of the scenes took over an hour to render on Cyan's SGI Indigo Workstations (they had 13 of them). RIVEN contains over 4,000 fully-rendered scenes and 1,000 QuickTime movies (over three hours of astonishing animation). The screens in RIVEN has 608x392 pixels and 256 colors for each image, taking up almost the entire screen. HyperCard was colorized using a proprietary version of Symplex System's HyperTint, written by John Miller. Graphics and Construction tools used in MYST:Īll images and animations were modeled and rendered on six Macintosh Quadras using StrataVision 3d by Strata, Inc. The palettes used in the Windows version of MYST: In all, the island has one tenth of the geometric detail of a RIVEN island. The ground cover for the entire island is a single texture image painted onto an extruded surface. When MYST was originally constructed, each tree was modeled using just two cones - one for the trunk, and one for the foliage. For example, there are whole forests of trees on MYST Island but no leaves. The screens had 543x332 pixels, taking up approximately three quarters of the screen. Renders for each Age was displayed in a palette of only 256 colors, which, though expertly devised, limited the tonal range of finished images. If you want to give him a happier ending, give him the white pinwheel.Simple geometry and low texture resolutions made high contrast between light and shadow in the original MYST. ![]() Look for a door back outside you can open, which gains you access to the Bell Demon’s Temple – including the shortcut back to the Ashina Outskirts in the Headless Mini-Bosses cave.īe sure to return to Kotaro the Taro Troop brute back at the Senpou Temple entrance with the White Pinwheel. There’s a broken wall on the right you can enter to find a Heavy Coin Purse, and Monkey Booze held by a statue – which you can share with the Sculptor, Isshin, or Emma if you choose. Now jump across to the main cliffside and head up the slopes to another temple (watch out for more Crawling Geckos hiding in the grass). Turn around here, and you’ll finally find the White Pinwheel that Kotaro wants. Enter a very narrow crevice where two Crawling Geckos will drop down, and then use your wall-jump ability to jump out of the crevice onto the ledge above. There’s more to find here, so grapple back using the branch to the ledges and sidle left to go up over more ledges. Once you grab on – look behind you for a low hanging tree branch that can catapult you back across the ravine to a small platform (you need to be at the very end of the ledge to make it work) and you’ll find a Heavy Coin Purse here, along with another ledge path back to the Shugendo. At the end of the path here is a deep ravine, but you can make out lines of ledges to grab if you jump across the ravine and fall down a bit (you can make it!) Look down right along the cliff face here to find more wooden platforms you can jump to, wrapping under the plateau above. Back where you found the pinwheel, look down on the left of the cliff to find some lower platforms you can drop to. ![]()
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