Author Archives: Krom

Selective terrain painting

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Krom

Implemented another “must-have” feature in Map Editor: painting of terrain surfaces into allowed areas (ground, water, mountains). The screen shows how Sand brush was applied to “ground-only” area – notice how water and mountains remained intact, while terrain surface changed.

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Profiling CPU

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Krom

Fixed a couple of bugs today, as usual. Did some GUI tweaks. And also implemented stacked CPU profiler. This is a nice way of seeing where CPU time gets spent. Profiling 8-players skirmish mission. Most of the CPU time is … Continue reading →

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Another bunch of work

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Krom

Fixed another couple of bugs revealed during automated testing. Been redoing flat buttons: They are still far from perfect. Next step will be to change grey menu backgrounds into something stone/leather/plaster-like. Probably darker shade. Changed new Map Editor terrains selection … Continue reading →

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Today’s work

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Krom

Fixed a couple of nasty bugs tonight: Delivery task got corrupt when destination was destroyed and Serf was looking for a new destination. (yes, Serfs don’t throw away wares now, they will try to find a new demand) Blanks were not … Continue reading →

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What’s new with Knights Province since last newspost?

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Krom

What’s new with Knights Province since last newspost? New unit training is mostly done. Rigged a new automatic test to help catch save/load bugs. Two bugs found almost immediately! Fixed a crash when corrupt savegame was parsed. Found a flaw in … Continue reading →

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New unit training mechanics for Alpha 8

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Krom

I’ve almost rigged new unit training mechanics in Knights Province this weekend! Cottages will generate new unit type over time called, (for lack of better title) – Blank. Training citizen in School costs 1 Blank unit (no gold required yet?). … Continue reading →

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New map terrain

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Krom

Finally decided to implement default terrain selection in new map menu. Table on the right will show all available terrain surfaces. There are 2 issues remaining to solve: Menu does not have terrain textures loaded, so there’s nothing to show … Continue reading →

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Whats new with Knights Province?

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Krom

It has been 2 months since last progress report. Hopefully new post will come up much sooner than in April =) Most importantly – development goes on! I’m still finding time every few days to work on the game, write … Continue reading →

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Improved undo/redo menu

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Krom

Undo/Redo menu got its own mini-form now, so now you can see what undo steps are available and what did they include, also you can see redo steps in the same way:

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Lasso tools for MapEd

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Krom

Knights Province needs more content, including more maps. Mapmaking takes a lot of time which is spent on repetitive tasks. Mountains, forests, stone fields and such. There is a new tool now for these tasks – lasso selection with an … Continue reading →

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