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<blockquote data-quote="night" data-source="post: 41978" data-attributes="member: 493"><p>This is exactly my point as well: make the shadows part of the table art texture map, without shadows the tables are loosing depth and beome flat. What I notice is that the table art starts to decline. Compare older tables like TOTAN and TOM and FunHouse with the last Table Packs.. Creature of the Black Lagoon has one of the most ugliest plastic ramps. Compare this with the ramps of TOTAN. All the new tables look hasty-made, flat, lifeless. There is no soul in the table art rather than a cold 3D-look. I wrote this before, these tables are 80% image map textures. All extra work FarSight adds is the texturing of objects, and this job is done bad. </p><p>Going back to the shadow part, the newer tables are inconsistence with the older, as there are definetly shadows in the older tables. I doubt there are graphic artists responcible for the table graphics, I think a technical team is doing this job. A good artist will make the best out of every table and makes them shine. Look at the new iOS Pin-o-bot or the Pro-Pinball demo, that's table art my friends. TPA graphics are declining and all that is good loking about the tables are the original table arts scans. Hire good artists to make good looking tables, this is mediocre quality at best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="night, post: 41978, member: 493"] This is exactly my point as well: make the shadows part of the table art texture map, without shadows the tables are loosing depth and beome flat. What I notice is that the table art starts to decline. Compare older tables like TOTAN and TOM and FunHouse with the last Table Packs.. Creature of the Black Lagoon has one of the most ugliest plastic ramps. Compare this with the ramps of TOTAN. All the new tables look hasty-made, flat, lifeless. There is no soul in the table art rather than a cold 3D-look. I wrote this before, these tables are 80% image map textures. All extra work FarSight adds is the texturing of objects, and this job is done bad. Going back to the shadow part, the newer tables are inconsistence with the older, as there are definetly shadows in the older tables. I doubt there are graphic artists responcible for the table graphics, I think a technical team is doing this job. A good artist will make the best out of every table and makes them shine. Look at the new iOS Pin-o-bot or the Pro-Pinball demo, that's table art my friends. TPA graphics are declining and all that is good loking about the tables are the original table arts scans. Hire good artists to make good looking tables, this is mediocre quality at best. [/QUOTE]
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