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And more. Underground giants Some giant underground beasts! The giant cave spider is a crucial DF menace, and it looks sufficiently sinister. Giant moles are adorable. Cave toads and giant cave swallows and the important giant rat, larger than the large rat, of course.
Smallish mammals The two monotremes and some of their friends! Pangolins and porcupines and hoary marmots and opossums and beavers. Amazing to see them all there, ready to enter the very safe world of DF to make friends. Here is the monthly report. And here is the Future of the Fortress. It'll be streamed here on Twitch. They're also on Discord.
Most lately we've experimented a bit with material recolors for items. These are done in code based on the RGB color provided in the raws for the metals so they should work with metal mods etc. Here's the Debug Creature we've been using for creatures without tiles, after having arranged some swords of various materials in the arena. We've tried three options and are continuing discussions with support. We'll figure something out!
Sorry for the ongoing irritation there. Here's an interview with Noclip we did back at GDC last year when people could sit down in person for interviews and such things.
Has some Kruggsmash bits and other production bits, so not strictly an interview. Brook There's a brook. I didn't anticipate back when we started that we'd have a sixteen frame animation cycle in the game, but we have one now!
We might revisit flow direction indications a bit with this, and make some additional tweaks, but the rocks and refraction effects are really cool as it stands. It's going to be exciting to see how floodgate systems and other fluid systems look as they all come online. Otherwise, I've continued catching up with identifiers. Toys, shields, trap components, prepared food, various constructed floors, and all manner of other tiles up and running, and we should have some additional presentable images soon.
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The main project for the artists is the rivers and brooks, and that's going well. We do have a few things we can show this week: Large workshops Here are the larger workshops, the siege workshop and the kennels. Minecart tracks And here are the minecart tracks. There are carved tracks from the top, transitioning into some wooden ones, and finally some stone ones heading up from the southwest.
We also have images for track stops and rollers that aren't coded up yet. I'm always several identifiers behind, ha ha, and the work continues! Starting with that, this is what the lowest level of a lightly forested area looks like currently: Tree base There are saplings and shrubs there as well - we have some specific shrub tiles now, but these species are still generic.
As I mentioned before, the initial challenge was to distinguish trees from stumps, and this was accomplished with the shadow and some general liveliness. Of course, as you know if you've played the game, what lies above presents entirely new challenges!
Thick branches can be walked upon, so they have to be reasonably wide, whereas thin branches do not support a walker, and so are much more fragile looking. On top of that, trunks can grow sideways but are not walkable, so needed to be distinguished from thick branches.
This is accomplished by use of a trunk pillar in each of the trunk tiles, while the trunk tile still indicates its possible horizontal parent and children. Here we have several leaf tiles depending on adjacency, which allowed the artists to attain the phenomenon of crown shyness. Not all species do this in real life, but in the game, it allows players to more easily distinguish which tree they are looking at, so we're using it everywhere. We're still in various states of handling thicker trunks highwoods can get up to 3x3!
This is still in progress, and we have a lot of planned improvements around mountain peaks, river mouths, oceans, and just about everything else, ha ha, but it's definitely come into its own as an image of the world that will work for fort mode, adventure mode, and legends mode alike. This was well over a thousand images, especially to smooth out the blocky boundaries. It's still a grid map, and it's not easy to get away from that fully, but the artwork has gone a long way toward making it look more natural.
A few more days of tinkering and we should have some more images to show, and more on through May! There are a ton of tiles to reference, and the edges and layering are a little tricky, but hopefully we'll have some images soon.
First look at machines I can't show a useful machine yet, but here is a windmill turning some axles and gear assemblies. Off to the right you can see a hint of a tree shadow. Here's a fuller picture of where we are with that: tree shadows. DF's multitile trees are a challenge to draw - even indicating that they are a living tree and not a stump down at the base level takes some work.
The artists went with foliage shadows, and it does the job! And appropriately enough, here are our first procedural creature pictures. Night trolls!
As you can see here, they reflect a lot of what's going on in the descriptions horn character and number, tail character and number, hairiness, skinlessness , but because we glue them together from parts that need to be reused, they don't reflect absolutely everything joints, howling. With their much greater diversity, depicting forgotten beasts and demons will require more forms and effort, but similar principles should work out.
Castes Here's some additional detail for creatures - differentiation based on 'caste' information. Now more domestic animals can be distinguished by their images. Stockpiles And finally, the next iteration on stockpiles. We're still working with these, and signage etc. As usual, we worked on some other things that aren't quite ready more with trees, wagons, and so forth. Not just because of the ramps, which we showed you with the last set of pictures, but just wrapping your head around the three-dimensional map can be a bit much when it only shows you a cross-section at a time.
Multilevel Display Here's a lot of what we've been working on recently. There have been additional attempts to sort out a few of the minor issues you see there with soil-edge-shading and so forth, and work is ongoing, but this helps a lot already! Multilevel Animation Ha ha, here's a dev log foray into animated media, scrolling down a few levels. Those images take place in deserts since our work on vegetation is in flux. We'll be able to show some pictures there later when it is ready.
Finished Placement vs. Planned Furniture We're experimenting with transparency for planned furniture. Here are two similar bedrooms. Blind Cave Ogre and Gorlak Even in the new display, as some people noted last time with the domestic animals, we can't show the exact size of creatures - there's just not enough room in the tiles.
However, we can bend the constraints of tiles a bit, as we did with workshops. Our currently specifications allow creatures like dragons to visually occupy most of six tiles three wide, two tall , though the game logic is still the same creatures are in one tile, sometimes many creatures. More great work from our artists!
More to see next week! I hope all is well. I also did an interview with Literate Gamer last month that goes into the graphical release and what comes afterward.
Ramps Here's an example of a more gnarly ramp situation which would of course be a ton of upward triangles in Classic DF. We're still working on shadows and transitions, but it's going pretty well, I think. More ramps Here's another one that also has some hematite at the north side and some brown jasper at the south side. We're hoping to shade the stone around the jasper like the sort of stone it is in, rather than the current lighter color.
Additionally, we've continued along with workshops and walls. All of the standard 3x3 workshops are displaying in the game now. Fort Here's a small fort with a carpenter, mason and metalsmith under construction, with a little bit sticking up above the wall.
The smoothed walls use the proper picture now though the color still needs to match the rough stone , and you can also see a constructed wall made from blocks on the top right. Since many people like to patch up their forts perfectly, and others want constructions to be distinct, the current thinking is to go ahead and allow constructed walls to be smoothed and engraved like regular walls. Engraving constructions is a long-standing request, so even better. Many domestic animals Finally, in Critter News, we have domestic creatures displaying.
I sold all the material in my starting wagon except for a pick and bought up a barnyard full and set them by the water. I realized late that the last dev log was a bit confusing, and that despite how things have worked here for many years, there should probably be some pictures, ha ha.
Please remember that these are all works in progress, and absolutely everything about them is subject to change. Hill Carpenter This is what I mean by different grid sizes. The visible fort area is made up of 32x32 tiles, while the old interface which we haven't touched yet is 8x12 tiles. You can see some of the week's work in this shot as well. We're experimenting with ramp shadows there are a few cases there were the shades don't match up , as well as ramp shapes.
You can see to the left and right of the door how some of the recessed ramps don't match up with the others.
There are a lot of different ramp configurations, so this is an ongoing process! You can see here the stockpile and some log items, as well as a placed door and a carpenter's workshop. These are mostly soil walls which will likely be reddish brown later, instead of gray - the game is pulling from the RGB values of the material definitions, and the soil materials don't have corrected colors yet.
Some Rooms In this image, you can see some small rooms underground, where I've smoothed the top portion of the largest room as well as the first small room to the right. Here you can see the wall shadow effect, as well as the variations in rough stone floor texture and the gem walls where the miners uncovered some rubicelle. I've mostly been working with these shadow and floor textures, but we also got a preliminary dwarf displaying as well!
They are built from several pieces twelve layers currently , and we'll be able to show a picture of that once it is further along. Mike and Patrick have also done hundreds of creatures, items, workshop, plants and more, and I just have to keep working to catch up with them, ha ha ha.
But work continues! The basic support for multiple differently-sized grids is done. I haven't added much tile support yet, so what I saw was just a grass-and-stone field with the menus printed above it, but on the other hand, that was the first major hurdle.
Now I'm just slogging through a list of identifiers and draw commands so the artists can put all of their various art into the game and tweak their existing pictures and so forth. So far, so good. Fixes old and new this time. From the new category, aside from crashes, marriages were being dissolved frequently and friendly visiting experiments were breaking too much furniture.
Barring sudden issues, this will be the final bug-fix release before we get the code work started on the graphical version. There's a lot left to fix before that version is ready to be released, and we'll be doing parallel bug fix releases as the graphics stuff progresses. If you've already contributed and have been waiting, now is the time to reply to the email I sent, or feel free to email me at toadyone bay12games.
We won't be able to take new requests starting March 1, and we'll have to be firm about that in order to stop the process from continuing forever, so please don't delay. The next fix release should be coming by the end of the month. GDC is rolling around again in March, and the graphical code work will also begin, so it should be a hectic and interesting time.
I've also done a few quick changes to socializing and stress, but that's a longer project as well. Dwarves clump now in zones and taverns, which should help with the friendship rate, and I've made the most stressable dwarves a little more fixable.
Reminder: We'll start coding on the graphical version in a few weeks. We'll still have these bug-fix releases periodically, though there will be an initial gap of some time while I get the core framework done to the point where the artists can use it. But there should be at least one more bug-fix release around the change of the month before that work begins.
There were sudden inspections and other such to deal with. Hopefully I won't have to move soon, but we'll see! I did get some stuff done the last few days as we now head toward the next fix release. Another world gen crash fixed. Hopefully took a chunk out of the raid crashes there was a large problem with the post-raid equipment manifests , but there are definitely still other issues there.
A few quirky issues like mercenaries attacking themselves, and tomb builders being able to control mummy zombies indirectly and even make them siege themselves. Crash related to pack animals, and an unretirement crash. Privacy Statement. See System Requirements. Available on Mobile device.
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