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Hello thieves,  the other day I realized my last Volta release was in 2017! Time really flies.  After years of fiddling with this project, I'm ready to announce the remaining missions in the Volt

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Added some temporary lights to FM that is just entering beta - I guess there is not much to show if all lights are off in your mission...   http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19886-fm-marsh-of-rahena-

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Got back to DR and added a few rooms to my WIP ...          

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The latest from Penny Dreadful 3. Things are starting to get closer to the finish.

 

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Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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Finding a good method for some fake-bake soft shadows...

 

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Extremely situational as the bake lighting angles in Softimage must match the mesh to light node position in the level. Otherwise it's not really too accurate. What I can do is think up a fairly simple angle with my mesh and a wall. Then I go into my modeling app and duplicate the scenario with a bake plane as the wall to receive the shadow. Bake it out and then run it through a light.

 

The other obvious problem is I have to use two lights. One to cast the fake-bake shadow and the other to simulate the lighting source in front of the object. It's a small workaround but it would be extremely helpful to have a special means of flagging a certain mesh for the light to, "skip" rendering the light image over. Otherwise I will stick with using two lights for now.

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I was thinking about this technique for foliage but thought it would be too tedious to be practical.

If there's a good way to automate this, then it would offer another cool way to optimize too.

 

Similar to the goal of automating the Strombine method:

 

http://lunaran.com/page.php?id=165

 

The engine can be tricked into some amazing visuals but it's so labor intensive to get there.

 

In case you weren't aware, Blender can import *.map files as quake 3 map format so you could do more complex angles that way

but you'd still need to account for the projection directions somehow. I guess you could build dummy geometry that matches the light

projection direction and origin and add that to the export.

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My plans are to use this for those, "iconic" locations where it would benefit the most from long dramatic shadows. The other thing too that I've figured out is that as long as the light can be set in a good position the wall or surface it's casting to really doesn't matter for topology's sake. As long as the fake-bake shadow is ran from the same angle (as the light entity to the actual prop in-game) the game takes care of the rest.

 

I really wish we had some kind of modified light entity for this. Primarily so we could denote a target mesh that would only receive light (without the texture). Then you could place a single directional light in DR and assign the mesh along with the appropriate soft shadows texture. The best part is it's pretty easy once you know what angle you want to run with. There's usually just a tad bit of tweaking in editor to make sure the shadow doesn't float but can be traced from the base of the object it's casting from. I'd be willing to toss together a tutorial about it just to show people the basics of it. Only thing is it would be from Softimage rather than Blender.

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Now that the beta is wrapping up, the accountant 2 will be released tomorrow. I'm going to sit on the mission for a bit and do one more playtest just to be sure there's nothing game breaking in it.

 

So for the meantime I wanted to share with you all the briefing video, I hope you all enjoy it :)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeuIO_GcYjQ

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Shadows of Northdale Campaign
ACT I: A Curious Mind | ACT II: Down The Rabbit Hole

Stand Alone Missions
Accountant 1: Thieves and Heirs | Accountant 2: New In town | Spring Cleaning | Lord Edgar's Bathhouse | Snowed Inn | Noble Affairs

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High quality, as expected. Bravo! :)

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In addition to making a few of them specifically for Penny Dreadful 3, I am working on a set of generic decals to enrich your mission with new tracts, advertisements and odd images you might find stuck on walls. For instance:

 

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Hello, darkness, my old friend!

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Just finished up some wood arch work here. I felt the hallway was still too bland structure wise. I think what I might do is maybe have lights, ropes, chains and other stuff hanging from these to change it up? Who knows.

 

 

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Just finished up some wood arch work here. I felt the hallway was still too bland structure wise. I think what I might do is maybe have lights, ropes, chains and other stuff hanging from these to change it up? Who knows.

 

 

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It looks funny how support beam is supported in the middle of door frame. :D

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Hello! Sharing is caring!

 

I wanted to show the opening scene of my new WIP.

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Release is hopefully by the end to summer 2016. Something new to play as a reward for the fine folks working hard for the new TDM version (which I am very eagerly waiting...) And everyone else, of course.

 

It will be a small, hopefully easyish, ~10 room mission based in a mansion.

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It is great that we have the possibility to make the AI notice stolen items. They present the player some interesting choices: should I steal this now? Should I steal this at all? It gets more difficult when the AI gets alerted.

 

The problem with the missing items is this: how to convey to the player that this item is so important that the AI will notice its disappearance? The players lose the decision making if they cannot know that this item will be missed. It is annoying, if the entire house will be alerted because of that plate you stole. Consistency is required.

 

My solution is simple: if item is not on display, it will not be missed. If it is on display, it will be missed.

 

I made a nice display case. If an item is in such a case, it's absence will be noticed eventually. I'll add a lock, too.

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Juicy loot! Will you steal it? If you do, the AI will know someone is in the house. Guards will be more alert. Sleeping guards will be roused. Decisions, decisions...

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Looks awesome!

 

A little progress report on my WIP:

A 10 room mansion heist with a new protagonist. Play time probably 30-60 min. I am aiming for a newbie-friendly experience with mostly simple patrols and reasonable AI density. I am still considering whether the protagonist is able to pick locks or not.

 

Current state:

Basic geometry 100%, detailing 100%, AI&paths 100%, plot 80%, objectives 30%, readables 30%, briefing 30%.

 

I was hoping to release the mission shortly after the new TDM version rolls out so that the folks get something new to play with the new version.

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William Steele! I am looking forward to playing another WS mission! :)

 

And from PD3, no screenshots anymore, but here is the loading screen (still subject to slight changes):

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