So, what are you working on right now?

[Dragofer]

@JackFarmer
Ah, that little thing - I was reminded of it when I saw your cool submarine in The Lost Citadel. Who knows, maybe people will see it in a FM one day?

[MirceaKitsune]

I remember someone expressing interest in how I create what I called "virtual cubes" out of vis portals, to have open outdoor areas be more performance efficient. Figured I'd share this screenshot which exemplifies a part of it.

I tested this setup and can confirm it to work well: As long as the edges of portals touch accordingly you can connect them together. I haven't testing T junctures (the edge of a portal laying across the face of another portal) since that seemed inefficient, currently I divide across intersections to create two portals in this scenario... if the engine tolerates T shapes I might unify some of them to make the calculation even more simple for the computer.

[MirceaKitsune]

Not ready to be shared just yet, give me another couple of days. Gonna be really fun once it's done and fully operational

[MirceaKitsune]

Slowly but surely getting there...

[MirceaKitsune]

This guard likes what he's seeing.

[MirceaKitsune]

The default arcade prefab which will be included with the playable game now contains openable doors that can be used to access the machine and operate it. Expect a pk4 and more info in the next hours.

[MirceaKitsune]

Last ones I'm gonna share here. Got the prefab design finished, should be ready with the rest by tonight.

[AluminumHaste]

That's neat!

[MirceaKitsune]

Thanks for your patience: A pk4 is now available containing my first release of the playable minigame. Just drop the pk4 into your FM directory and add the prefab to your map, dmap frob the screen and try it out! But remember it's a new feature tested only by me, there might be bugs so don't release any FM's with it just yet.

 

[MirceaKitsune]

Liking how this landscape turned out so far. Just one of the areas in my new FM, in between two of the city hubs it's gonna have available to explore and do missions in. Odd as it may seem this is one of the areas with the best performance.

[AluminumHaste]

Ohhh I love snow missions!

[MirceaKitsune]

11 hours ago, AluminumHaste said:

Ohhh I love snow missions!

Same, TDM could use more of them! This isn't a particular snow mission per say: It's the mountain area where it begins snowing, which happens after you complete the objective halfway throughout the FM... in the area between the other two towns it starts to rain instead.

Edited July 27 by MirceaKitsune

[JackFarmer]

@MirceaKitsune

So, let me get this straight: Your next mission will have a city and a forest section?

[MirceaKitsune]

4 hours ago, JackFarmer said:

@MirceaKitsune

So, let me get this straight: Your next mission will have a city and a forest section?

There are three different cities connected by two forest areas in a line. My goal was to experiment with having 3 city hubs in one FM, where you can travel from town to town and have to complete certain objectives in between areas.

I didn't add weather effects in the towns themselves for performance and difficulty reasons, but have snowing in the mountains and raining in the forest. As the player navigates it creates the illusion that it starts / stops raining or snowing as you walk to different areas, so it doesn't look out of place for what's literally a miniature segment of a continent you can explore.

[MirceaKitsune]

Actually now that I'm at it, I should share some of the first forest area too. The bandit forest... called that way because you encounter bandits who are the first foe you'll have to sneak past.

And this is after it starts raining, technically halfway throughout the game. It's easy to make weather effects triggerable fortunately, which I think makes them more interesting and the FM to feel more complex.

Edited July 27 by MirceaKitsune

[jonri]

I got a whole lot done on the inside the past week, but decided to switch gears and try my hand at landscaping:

 

SEED seems to do pretty well at scattering grass, but I need to tweak things to get them to floor better.

I came up with a nice little trick to draw the image maps SEED can use to spawn entities:

1. Take a screenshot of the top view from DR, and import it into your favorite photo editor
2. Add a new half-transparent layer and draw your image map on top
3. Crop and export your top layer with the right settings, and apply it to your SEED entity

[nbohr1more]

A little "No Honor Among Thieves" v4 preview. Not too revealing. See if you can spot the new texture I created...

 

 

[kin]

On 7/29/2021 at 7:16 AM, nbohr1more said:

A little "No Honor Among Thieves" v4 preview. Not too revealing. See if you can spot the new texture I created...

 

 

Is there a release date for this masterpiece? Trying to cope with the fm drought watching those beautiful screenshots.

Edited July 30 by kin

[Dragofer]

@kin
NHAT v4 is in the beta testing forums right now, so it should be fairly soon. Could maybe do with another tester there, though.

[peter_spy]

Lately it's mostly level design stuff and trying to find interative workflow that is good for me. After hours of blocking out and discarding stuff, I finally got the first draft of a hub location that may actually work. Just finished gluing one of the other locations to it. Now onto designing the third one.

[AluminumHaste]

Very cool!

[Geep]

Release Candidate 1 of Away 0: Stolen Heart is available for testing here. Now with a new loading screen...

[refl3ks]

It's been quite a while since I last posted. My work-flow is a bit sporadic.

• Map for 2 months straight
• Burn out
• Take a break for 6 months to a year
• Repeat

Anyways, here is an updated video on some of my progress. I'm roughly 35% finished. I plan on pacing myself somewhat better this time around (I keep saying that and I keep on lying..).

Short updated progress video below:

The Unwelcome Guest - Work in Progress Vid

Older video:

The Unwelcome Guest - 2020

Edited August 27 by refl3ks
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[JackFarmer]

19 minutes ago, refl3ks said:

The Unwelcome Guest - Work in Progress Vid

Older video:

The Unwelcome Guest - 2020

 

 

Very good looking and great atmosphere! 

Did you include customized ambient tracks?

I recommend you to define efx as soon as possible cause it will definitely add to the mood and can become quite tiresome when added once everything has been finished.

[Amadeus]

32 minutes ago, refl3ks said:

It's been quite a while since I last posted. My work-flow is a bit sporadic.

• Map for 2 months straight
• Burn out
• Take a break for 6 months to a year
• Repeat

Ha, this sounds like my workflow! But looking good though! Keep up the great work