Hey, it looks better! My suggestion for the visuals is to make the nebulae more subtle - reducing a little visual noise can go a long way. Maybe you can also make the parallax more varied, all of those stars being on just a few flat parallax planes looks a little unnatural. You could also darken a lot of the visuals in the background, the contrast between the game play and the background should probably be greater than it is currently. On a side note, I think you fundamentally misunderstand optimization. Less pixels in your texture reduces VRAM usage, which is great, but won't really effect load times (which were probably made worse, since you're now making thousands of these instead of spawning 200). If your load times were this significantly affected by improving poorly made textures, well, that should be an accomplishment, really. Point is, your load times were bad because of something else (or maybe a ton of compounding issues), and not just some texture oddities. Not that I would know since you never really share load times after these changes, so I guess I've got no clue.
@@ink4112 You could make each star have a generated 'parallax' value that just scales the amount it scrolls. For example, screen scroll*parallax value, parallax value could be anywhere between 0.5 .. 2.0, or just whatever range you make up. (Size should also be scaled by parallax value! Maybe slightly less though)
2:42 actually... pulsars are a different type of neutron stars
that looks awesome!
Very enjoyable video, keep it up!
Hey, it looks better! My suggestion for the visuals is to make the nebulae more subtle - reducing a little visual noise can go a long way. Maybe you can also make the parallax more varied, all of those stars being on just a few flat parallax planes looks a little unnatural. You could also darken a lot of the visuals in the background, the contrast between the game play and the background should probably be greater than it is currently.
On a side note, I think you fundamentally misunderstand optimization. Less pixels in your texture reduces VRAM usage, which is great, but won't really effect load times (which were probably made worse, since you're now making thousands of these instead of spawning 200). If your load times were this significantly affected by improving poorly made textures, well, that should be an accomplishment, really. Point is, your load times were bad because of something else (or maybe a ton of compounding issues), and not just some texture oddities. Not that I would know since you never really share load times after these changes, so I guess I've got no clue.
Thanks for the feedback and info, by the flat parallax planes looking unnatural do you mean there should be more layers (there are 10 currently)?
@@ink4112 You could make each star have a generated 'parallax' value that just scales the amount it scrolls. For example, screen scroll*parallax value, parallax value could be anywhere between 0.5 .. 2.0, or just whatever range you make up. (Size should also be scaled by parallax value! Maybe slightly less though)
+190% sounds pretty good
reminds me of cosmoteer
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