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justinbarrett

I thought there were no collisions with multimesh instances? Because it has crossed my mind...I suppose it's possible to add them one at a time in a loop and then ad their colliders??? I have not messed with this stuff yet. I really don't know. I'll check out the link...it doesn't mention collisions..

justinbarrett

So I am uploading the worst video ever, enjoy?

Seriously it's bad, but I wanted to show that I am still working on this...slowly but surely. I'm still just working on the basics, there is no enemy / NPC AI or questing system implemented still just getting the player ironed out. I did however finally get some kinks worked out and fixed up some UI...but there is a video you can watch that is only @4 min long so grab some popcorn and have a giggle.

cybereality

Ah, looks like it's coming together. Also the video is much smoother now. Good job!

justinbarrett

I did nothing :) you helped it more than I did. Thank you. But the new computer is a life saver. I have to cap it at 120FPS currently.. and I implemented a simple menu since the video...it was killing me :)

for some reason the mouse doesn't show up in the capture, but no big deal...the buttons still need some sort of background, they are a bit too light.

justinbarrett

I have finally started working on the skills and magic system...as well as the sound system, ranged systems and death. I will try to get a video up tonight. It's all still WIP ofc.

cybereality

Cool.

justinbarrett

New video showing some ranged abilities, skill system work, death system, menu system, potions and other WIP/alpha fluff.

please feel free to leave any criticisms here, please be critical of weaknesses and tell me what you like. It's the only way things really improve.

justinbarrett

magic is nearly complete, yet still a lot of bugs I need to squash before I consider moving on.

Megalomaniak

Sounds like some in the family might have a bit of a case of the sniffles. Hope you all get well soon and keep up the good work! :)

justinbarrett

A new video has been uploaded. showcasing a new bug :)..but also explaining the overally system and the finished spells and an accidental armor reveal.

justinbarrett

I may not have a new video up this weekend. I'm working on the enemy AI...writing pathfinding that works well for both open world and interior scenarios.. I have it working, but I would like to tweak it...Make it more robust overall. If my plans don't workout I will just dumb it down to a type of bread crumb system... so the enemies, at a minimum, don't get lost when moving away from their their spawn points.

I also need to get all the enemies to work with one rig and make a few more biped enemies. Quadruped enemies will have a different system and bosses, yet another...but I imagine I will do bosses on a one by one basis....

but my main focus in the immediate time is the pathfinding.

if anyone has ideas for enemies go ahead and let me know...I currently have 11 base types...ofc they all either can have or do have sub types...e.g. "Orc" / "Black Orc" / "War Chief"...

feel free to post ideas.

justinbarrett

I would have liked to do an update sooner..I would also like to do a new video, but TBH, I am in heavy edit mode..the way I need to build the world to keep framrates constant on all devices requires me to create everything in very specific ways...so I made the game simple on purpose. Aside from the ui everything is using a single shader(ok, particles and water use different shaders as well...sue me :) ).. BUT as far as characters, terrain, all solid meshes in general and foliage...all use one shader...anywhoo... here are some screen shots. Nothing too exciting, still under heavy construction...just some thing to show what I have been doing the last two weeks...when I have time. I am still working..no lockdown here or anything yet...I wish everyones safety and good health.

Megalomaniak

@justinbarrett said: BUT as far as characters, terrain, all solid meshes in general and foliage...all use one shader...anywhoo...

Yes, especially for the mobile platforms that is probably the best way to go. :)

justinbarrett

still working on the world...since it is all pretty resource efficient and using a single shader. My plan is to chop the world into 16-25 chunks each with a single LOD...if I need to use lod's the world seen here is @500K triangles..not sure how the math would work out for vertex count...most models do not have any splits or UV's, but some do...so ...no idea.. ...anyway all the trees. rocks, caves, buildings but not anything that you cannot clip/pass through will belong to it's chunk...not parented...one mesh...this should give me chunks that are manageable and easy to either work with LOD's or whatever I plan to do...the plus side is there will be very few objects to deal with. OR I may just parent them and iterate through checking the camera distance and make changes accordingly. I'm still thinking about it though...also still working on it...here is a less than fancy screenshot.

justinbarrett

Just uploaded another video...it's nothing amazing, but it does show a more complete world map.

justinbarrett

another dev log is up, more combat bugs show up :) but I finally show some AI..nothing spectacular, but quite functional.

justinbarrett

The following text was posted on another forum... Finished refactoring all of the combat…so everything is back to working normal…AFAIK? :slight_smile: eventually something will popup…so I am going to start working on more of the story driven aspect of the game…NPC’s…I may go dark for a week or two…I may not…kinda depends on how well it progresses…the ideas I have written down will hopefully work out as I expect…but more than likely not…I’ll see

I'm also starting work(on the side) for my beast(quadruped etc) models and AI...I have not come up with any fitting style for the models though...I had a wolf and it looked horrible...if anyone has some suggestions or mock-ups that they would like to donate I would be grateful.

justinbarrett

I managed to get the basics in place for dialogue and simple shops...so I will keep the gems and consider them out of "alpha"..the gems anyway :)

justinbarrett

Put up a new video on a whim...and it shows...I'm so professional :)

Megalomaniak

The video quality is fine and I think it was fine before too, but your colors(esp. reds) in the game are super over-saturated. which is something the video encoder probably has a hard time with. You might want to try calibrating your monitor for sRGB.

I should actually be doing that to mine as well now that I think about it. At least it's easy for me, I bought a colorimeter half a decade ago. But make no mistake, a colorimeter might make it easier, but it is not necessary.

Heres a photographer explaining the basics on youtube and links to a good site to help out.

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