Light & Shadow - Implement art assets

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Description

Light & Shadow (L&S) is one of Terasology's major gameplay modules - a CTF PvE gamemode that has red and black chess pieces waging war against each other in a quirky, Alice in Wonderland-inspired setting, with the player being an independent swashbuckling chesspiece that can choose to join one of the factions or operate independently.

Bringing the L&S word to life requires a large number of assets, from 3D models for chesspiece NPCs to interior decorations and custom cardsy trees. Due to the nature of L&S, these are generally fairly simple in terms of polygon counts and technical difficulty, but still flavourful and fun to implement 🙂

Asset Checklist (pick one or more!)

Blocks and Decorations

• Floor decorations - Carrom Corners decorative blocks Terasology/LightAndShadow#19
• Tao symbol textures - Pachisi Planes central Tao symbol Terasology/LightAndShadow#20
• Tao symbol 3D model - Secret room grand Tao 3d decorative animated model Terasology/LightAndShadow#21
• McGuffin, the "F" in CTF - "MacGuffin" block for each side (capture the flag style) Terasology/LightAndShadow#22
• Tower turrets - Integrate Towers into Light & Shadow Terasology/LightAndShadow#247
• Catapult ammo - "Dice" catapult ammo Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#38

Custom trees and flora

• Poker Chip tree - Poker Chip Tree Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#9
• Backgammon tree - Backgammon Tree Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#15
• Card Crag "boulders"- Card Crag Environment Props Assets and Generation Terasology/LightAndShadow#16
• Billiard Bluff tree - Billiard Bluff Tree Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#17
• Domino Pieces - Domino Piece Environment Props Assets, Generation, and Implementation Terasology/LightAndShadow#18
• Miscellaneous flora (card suit flowers) - Flora Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#11
• Generic "gray" flora - "Gray" Flora Art Asset Terasology/LightAndShadow#43

NPCs

• Player Avatar - Player avatar Terasology/LightAndShadow#48
• Red Bishop - Red Bishop Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#37
• Black Bishop - Black Bishop Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#36
• Red Fool (yep, that's a custom piece!) - Red Fool Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#30
• Black Fool - Black Fool Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#35
• Red Rook - Red Rook Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#28
• Black Rook - Black Rook Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#32
• Red Queen - Red Queen Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#27
• Black Queen - Black Queen Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#34
• Red King - Red King Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#29
• Black King - Black King Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#33
• Red Knight - Red Knight Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#31
• Black Knight - Black Knight Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#26
• Red Pawn - Red Pawn Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#14
• Black Pawn - Black Pawn Art Assets Terasology/LightAndShadow#13

Required skills

• For 2D assets: basic pixel art and texturing skills.
• For 3D assets: intermediate 3D modeling and animation skills. Terasology currently supports .md5 or Wavefront .obj models - a Blender importer is also available.

Where to start?

• The main repositories for the module are https://github.com/Terasology/LightAndShadow/ and https://github.com/Terasology/LightAndShadowResources/ - head there for source code and sample assets!
• Most of the art assets have concept art available at
  http://forum.terasology.org/threads/las-light-and-shadow-art-discussion.762/. Some might even be partially complete - check the relevant issue or ask on IRC to see if that's the case!