Status Report

I'm Back, Baby!!!

... and I bring .svbs.

Thanks to the magic of Agetian's ToEEWB we can now have models grey out when they walk behind walls. See some results below - hopefully they will get better when I get the hang of the various forms (the different bits). Its a bit hard to see in that pic, but take my word for it, there is a noticeable change when u go from behind to in front of a wall now. Certainly they are still a great leap forward from having the characters running around over the top of the walls etc. Couple this with the natural (and complete) clipping provided by objects in the game (trees, doors, chests etc) and we will have a nice interactive environ.

At Agetian's request I am doing a tutorial where I sector a map of Screeg's from beginning to end so all you fraidy-cats can see that ToEEWB, mysterious artefact of the gods though it may appear, is in fact nothing to be afeared of. Thats almost finished (sectoring and svbing done, just have to add an internal door) and should be up tomorrow. Then its on to the WorldMap.

Endarire's NPC is essentially done from where I am, just getting some tweaking from other modders, then its off to Morpheus

 

@ Shiningted: yeah, now that's great! And even though the pic is small, it *is* noticeable, especially on that top left guy! Amazing work, I can't wait to see svbs in action! Btw, if you need more help on SVBing, it's actually an amazing practice to look at the Tutorial Map 1 SVBs -- really helpful. And yeah, I'm really looking forward to seeing that tutorial on sectoring!

- Agetian

 

Funny, my Obsidian spontaneously switched to smaller fonts.

Anyways, updated the Gallery with a new pic of svbing in action, shows the effect from a character running down a long corridor, compared to him at either end.

 

Been on a modding frenzy, many new NPCs mobbed in and other stuff done, including finally putting in the portraits for Robin Graves and Two Swords (see gallery). Worldmap in place, now to move them dang buttons around.

EDIT: Spruiking the mod on the U5:Lazarus forums (hey, they asked!) and realised this gallery addition didn't come out, will look into it.

 

Apropos of my recent blog, I have finished renumbering all the maps and generally assigning them to their correct areas, to coincide with the Worldmap and also various internal necessities (like Keep quests coming up in the right spot in the logbook, ditto Wilderness and Caves quests - not that I have tested that far ) The renumbering was less painful than I thought.

Also sectored the upstairs armoury for good measure. 'Sectored' will from now on include adding svbs, certainly haven't added them to all the old maps but new ones will come complete from now on.

 

Well its going to be new content, not a new engine ;-)

Otherwise, as close to the original KotB as possible.

 

Thanks for the (double) encouragement!

That being said, KotB is again on hold while I do 4.1.0 duties. That has a release date of less than a month away, so this shouldn't be on hold long.

In the mean time, I have updated the gallery with some new stuff - go look!

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~shiningted/index.html