Author Archives: Krom

Thoughts aloud on storage

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Krom

Why do we ever need storages? Every extra resource spending its time in storage is just dead weight. Even worse, every time resource gets brought to and then taken from storage costs extra time and needs some unit to perform. … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas | 5 Comments

New perspective

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Krom

Implementing house rotation and viewing game from new perspective:

Posted in Live progress, Screenshots, Sidenotes, Uncategorized | 10 Comments

Alpha 7.1 update

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Krom

Alpha 7.1 has been updated. I have got a lot of crashreports with error in “TFormViewport.UpdateUI” function. They were caused by accessing freed memory. This update fixes it. New version is Alpha 7.1 r4421 Download links remained the same:

Posted in Downloads | 6 Comments

Alpha 7.1

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Krom

Alpha 7.1 features a dozen of bugfixes and improvements (updated to r4382). Download links: Full list of changes below:

Posted in Downloads, News | 29 Comments

Alpha 7 bugs

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Krom

So far Alpha 7 works out quite well. Collected only half a dozen of crashreports, mostly related to GPU drivers. There are couple of recurring bugreports that I would like to address:

Posted in Feedback, Sidenotes | 12 Comments

Alpha 7 is here!

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Krom

Alpha 7 is finally ready! It took a long time, but the list of improvements is also long: Improved Win/Defeat graphics Reworked terrain to allow for textures 21 new terrain textures Terrain surfaces painting with weights in MapEd Improved and … Continue reading →

Posted in Downloads, News | 12 Comments

Today’s improvements

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Krom

Today was a productive day for small fixups: Lots of renaming and refactoring in code Fixed falling tree sound played behind fog of war Added dev button to save running game into a mission (map + dat files) Made fog … Continue reading →

Posted in Live progress | 7 Comments

Note on Knights Province animations and how they got better last week

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Krom

Knights Province needs a lot of animations. They are essential to making the games’ world feel alive. Here’s how they work and how they just got better. Animations start with a skeleton rig. Rig is a description of how character … Continue reading →

Posted in How things work | 6 Comments

r4186 – Interpolating animations and refactoring AI

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Krom

Smoothed house and unit animations. Where they were sampled at 30fps and nearest frame was picked to render, now the render shows interpolation result between two frames (article will follow later). Did a lot of work on refactoring old code, … Continue reading →

Posted in Live progress | 2 Comments

GUI improvements for upcoming Alpha 7

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Krom

Added soft shadows around game panels. Also made panels to come to front and overlap other panels when clicked:

Posted in Live progress, Sidenotes | 6 Comments