Fun with Photoshop: The Cleft

HarveyMidnight · **Joined:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:59 pm **Posts:** 432

Now THIS is how I'd like to see the cleft in-game, sometimes...

Alien · **Posted:** Sat Jul 20, 2013 7:06 am

Ooo pretty ... would a more varied weather pattern be possible as an update? ie morning to midday to afternoon to evening to night to dawn to morning?

janaba1 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 20, 2013 8:16 am

Wow!!! Absolutely stunningly beautiful, Harvey ... and it'd be just so natural ...

Ainia · **Posted:** Sat Jul 20, 2013 10:03 am

Shorah,

Hmmm, boy this sure seems familiar... there was an old thread where Tweek posted some of his Cleft concept art but it appears the image links no longer work. If I'm remembering right, there were a couple similar images there.

Dang, sure wish I could find those old pictures. I just remember that they were pretty cool (sunset and starry night). I hate when I do that (lose nice stuff...)

chrissifniotis · **Posted:** Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:47 am

Alien wrote:

Ooo pretty ... would a more varied weather pattern be possible as an update? ie morning to midday to afternoon to evening to night to dawn to morning?

Seconded! The same for Wet Cleft too, rainy day and night cycles.

TOOO · **Posted:** Sat Jul 20, 2013 1:36 pm

Well, if they can pull it off in Payiferen and Eder Gira, why not the Cleft?

angelmyst · **Posted:** Sat Jul 20, 2013 1:40 pm

Beautiful...I would be visiting the Cleft more often if the scenery was like this.

Jamie Marchant · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 6:58 pm

Alien wrote:

Would a more varied weather pattern be possible as an update? ie morning to midday to afternoon to evening to night to dawn to morning?

For the cleft that would require Cyan to make new content, it's unlikely to happen anytime soon.

JWPlatt · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 9:31 pm

I prefer this one:

HarveyMidnight · **Joined:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:59 pm **Posts:** 432

Jamie Marchant wrote:

Alien wrote:

Would a more varied weather pattern be possible as an update? ie morning to midday to afternoon to evening to night to dawn to morning?

For the cleft that would require Cyan to make new content, it's unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Well --- to make it easier, someone could just drop the need for any CHANGING weather pattern... just make a 'new' version of the existing Cleft, which replaces the stationary blue sky with a stationary fiery sunset sky, and reduces the light-level, changes color balance to make it look like dusk under a sunset

Do the same for a 'Night sky' version of the Cleft. Some fans who are experienced designers could probably create both pretty easily, using the data of the existing Cleft.

Edit to add--- personally, I'd prefer the night and sunset versions to have different songs, more pretty & ambient for stargazing or meditations on the sunset... . but I don't know how that would be handled.

All Cyan would have to do, tho, if a fan designed a 'sunset cleft' and 'night cleft', is approve these new versions to be added to MOULa-- just sneak a bahro stone onto Zandi's table-- one in the sunny Cleft to get to the sunset Cleft, one in the rainy Cleft to get to the nighttime Cleft. Or, perhaps add these two bahro stones somewhere in Sevkor, once it is complete.

Sure, it'd be a 24 hour sunset & a 24 hour night & a 4 page Cleft book... . but that's really not so different from already having two pages & a 24 hour day & rainstorm.

Jamie Marchant · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:37 pm

The problem is the other clefts would have to created from scratch and could not look like the normal cleft.

HarveyMidnight · **Joined:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:59 pm **Posts:** 432

Jamie Marchant wrote:

The problem is the other clefts would have to created from scratch and could not look like the normal cleft.

There's not any way to use the normal cleft? No way to just reduce the brightness, shift the color balance, but otherwise use the same 'base'?

Jamie Marchant · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:45 pm

I don't think there is no.

dgelessus · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:50 pm

Jamie Marchant wrote:

I don't think there is no.

You could just copy the Cleft and modify it. The TOC people have copied Ae'gura and modified it, so I guess it would also be possible for the Cleft. There will be copyright problems though, because the Cleft is Cyan's intellectual property. And before you ask, I'm not an expert in copyright matters.
Another thing that I've been told in another thread is that the sunny and rainy cleft are the same age file, so it probably wouldn't be hard to implement other lighting or weather conditions.

angelmyst · **Posted:** Mon Jul 22, 2013 12:25 pm

too funny...roadrunner cleft is now my desktop..love it!!

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