![]() “Once the particles all blend together, you get the final effect.”Īs Hollister talked about at Mysterium 2018, our team purchased both models of synthesizers Robyn Miller used to make the Riven soundtrack, which provided a strong and consistent aural foundation for his new composition. “The particles have an ever-so-slight random rotation and scale over time, along with a soft fade-in and fade-out, and of course, a blue tint,” he explained. With this as a new starting point, he went about setting it up in the game engine, using a gas-like noise texture applied to a particle emitter. “Much like how neon is used to illuminate signs in our world, there’s no reason Gehn couldn’t have discovered a naturally luminescent gas and encapsulated it in glass orbs as a permanent light fixture,” Robert says. ![]() It was these artifacts that led him to a theory: the blue orbs aren’t lights, they’re glowing gas. “Also, in many of them there were some strange pixel artifacts, and these artifacts have no consistency between different viewing angles.” “I noticed that there is no indication of any sort of bulb or filament in the glass, just a hazy blue color,” Robert shared. These lighted poles line the Mag-Lev dock, and epitomize a question our team members are always asking themselves: what is that? Robert Kreps, one of our 3D artists, found himself trying to decipher the nature of the lights while working to recreate them. ![]() The lighted poles, as seen in the original game For anything else Starry Expanse related, you can find us here. If you have any questions about the Riven project, we encourage you to join the Cyan community Discord. Likewise, there is an FAQ about the new Riven project posted on their website. If you want to learn more about Cyan’s update, you can read it in full here. Thank you for walking the distance with us. We would like to extend our most heartfelt thanks to all of our fans for their passion, encouragement, and most of all their patience. And we’re really excited to be able to talk to you directly again, after all this time. We are looking forward to sharing more of our story and the things we’ve learned along the way in the coming months. We’ll still be both here and in our Community Discord, just like we have always been. Riven is real.Ĭyan has definitely got their work cut out for them, and our team (with one notable exception) are moving on to other projects, but our love for Riven hasn’t faded. After well over a decade of planning, developing, and endless camera-matching, this amazing world that we pored over for so long is going to be realized. Now the details have been ironed out and the torch has been passed. We’ve kept a pretty low profile since that time - which was a shift for us after so many years of public transparency - but while we’d handed the reins over to Cyan in the months following our meeting, they were not ready to make a public announcement just yet. The Starry Expanse contingent outside Cyan HQ, Mysterium 2019 ![]()
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