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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #27

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With the first variant completely finished, Bianca was able to get a successful bake for the second model this month before moving onto the base sculpt for the final rat and armor. Rigging / Animation. This sprint, Allie was able to fully finish the facial rig after working on the jowl, nose bridge, and bottom-lip control joints.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #28

Astral Clock Tower Studios

While building up the hair shader, however, Pete struggled to find a way to actually bake out the flow map information (meaning: the directional flow of the hair cards) onto an image pulled from the 3D suites our modeling team typically uses, like Maya and Blender. link] Rigging / Animation. Convenient, right? Sound Design.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #35

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Kristala does feel like a traditional indie Soulslike game in many ways, but we've also lovingly baked in a ton of elements that will appeal to fans of other genres too. link] Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. and they're not wrong. link] [link] Kristala Original Soundtrack.

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