"Hard Wood" An action MMORPG. Formely called nick 'The Messiah'.

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Here is the first screen shot for my forum discussion on this project.

The design is still a work in progress. So far I have decided to make it an Action MMORPG with PVE missions. CPU realm versus Human realm. The human realm can loose.

See the screen shot? I haven't decided if I'd like this weapon to be used similar to the berserker in "Terra Online". Or if I want to make it something different. It would be easier to make it similar to the berserker. But maybe I should save that for a 2H Hammer?

What do you think about the different weapons? Bow, 2H-sword, 1H-sword, 2H-Axe, Spear, 2H-Hammer, Staff/wand. I'm thinking about omitting 1H-sword, Spear. That would leave, Bow, 2H-sword, 2H-axe, 2H-hammer, staff/wand.

The name will be changed before any release of the project.

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Today I made a scorpion for the game. It's not fully finished yet.

Right now the scorpion faces the player when detected. But tomorrow if all is well, I'll be making the scorpion move. And then later start the beginning of some game dynamics as far as hit rolls.

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Hit rolling, Character Sheets. I finished the scorpion. Added some more animations for the player character.

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What do you think about adding guns. I have to keep the scope down to make the project possible. 2h-Swords, 2h-Axe, Gun, Staff (magical powers), Bow I think the gun would be a quick addition to it. Maybe in 3 days. But I might decide to program the inventory system first.

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What I am trying to do here is quickly produce the game parts. I could make it look better and more depth and detail. But I am thinking that it's more important to the project running and released first. Then do some polishing such as detailed buildings. Using sculpting rather than just painting it. But I think it serves it's purpose here. It might stay like this for the whole project and never get changed. I don't know. My focus is more on the game and it's dynamics. I want to get something playable as quick.

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The thing this screen shot is showing is 3D text working. Using Godot's 3d Sprite and my own textures I was able to create a 3D text script. Now my mobs can be programmed to talk. And the damage points can now be seen.

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A working skill system!

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Screen shot of first female Chibi in the MMO. She is wearing sack cloth. This came after recovering from system failure and loosing some work.

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Screenshot showing male chibi with sack cloth on. I plan on making these the beginner cloths. Next I want to work on the first NPC. and then maybe the quest system. And also GUI for the inventory.

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Cool stuff! Do you already have the networking side of things going?

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There is not yet networking. After enough content is produced, I will create a server and client model.

comblock

Looks good!

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I'd suggest starting on the networking soon because if you do that too late you'll have to redo some stuff

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I've been building it as solo because I would have to dual edit. But, I think it will be started soon. First i want to add all the weapon types and animations.

The screen shots that the MMO has simulated Day and Night, with a Sun rotating around the world.

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I am unable to work on the parts I want too, and that is sculpting weapons. AT least not until my ram chips arrive. For now I have been working on eyes.

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I said I wanted to put one of these in the game. I was able to sculpt this even though the ram chips are not here. It can load, aim, and shoot. Does not yet do proper damage.

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I'm trying to get it developed enough to start on networking. Here I have some hair for the male chibi. Plus the gun was repainted. And it gives out smoke after being fired.

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I can't give a screen shot this. My computer is down until I get some replacement video card. But for now, I wanted to say that the computer has inventory system, items from it can equip and unequip. I've done some work on the dynamics, as far as hit rolls are with character sheets.

But I have a problem with I am trying to work out, right now it would not be able to handle more than 50 players, per instance. I need to fix this. I know the old MMO, the early MMO games could handle 1000 players on a single thread. I need to learn how.

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The old early MMOs likely didn't need to update at a constant rate and could serialize player actions in ways that modern 3D games can't. Still that isn't to say that there couldn't be ways for you to optimize it.

In fact if you can try and make sure that the player actions don't all have to constantly be updated to the server every frame, that will probably be a significant help I expect.

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Something I want to try is updating the player movement only at only 6 fps on the server, while updating the player movement on the client at 60fps. The client would run it's own simulation. The only updates sent to and from the server would be movement order commands. Event driven. IF forward is pressed then one time code of forward down sent. this would start a simulation of both server and client.

I have programmed that model before, with the event driven movement commands. The problem I had was not being able to handle all those movements on the server. But after what you said I would now try limited the player movement into 6fps. This would also mean the speed movement would be higher on the server than client. And choppy. But I think it would still be accurate enough for an action MMO.