Em-8ER, the Mark Kern-led “massive planetary wargame” shooter formerly known as (and still pronounced like) Ember, has a new video out today showing off the THMPR — don’t look at me like that — model in Unreal Engine.
“The model you see here is being rendered in real-time in the Unreal Engine. We use a texturing/material technique called PBR or Physically Based Rendering to make materials like metal look much more realistic,” the team writes in the blog post. “Now that the THMPR is modeling, we’ll need to animate it and build a background scene.”
Kern is a decidedly controversial (his word) figure to MMORPG genre veterans thanks to his involvement with Firefall and the vanilla World of Warcraft community, among other internet movements. He has previously discussed his plans for this shooter, including “serial Kickstarting” and a Firefall-esque foundation that doesn’t “drift over to ‘WoW with guns’ again.” Studio Crixa has thus far raised $23,000 in the first of its planned miniature crowdfunding campaigns, exceeding its goal.
