Author Archives: Krom

Profits from rewriting terrain render

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Krom

There are a couple of positive effects of rewriting terrain render, among which much better scalability. Previously one terrain chunk (8×8 tiles) was limited to having just 4 textures. Now they are automatically split into buckets with 4 textures each. … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on terrain

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Krom

Once again I’m thinking about reworking terrain render. Introduction of terrain textures rendered old terrain render approach useless. Let’s recap how it works. Till now everything gets assembles from tiles. Each tile having from 2 to 20+ polygons to show … Continue reading →

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Knights Province Alpha 6 gameplay on YouTube

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Krom

From time to time I search for Knights Province on Google or YouTube, to see if there’s anything new about it that I don’t know. Today I have spotted another Knights Province video on YouTube (almost 1 month old). It … Continue reading →

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Performance charts

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Krom

Rigged those fancy-looking performance charts today. Each section is part of the total frame render time. As you can see, example frame gets rendered under 20ms (equals to ~50fps). Most of the time is spent in rendering of terrain and … Continue reading →

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More sounds

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Krom

Was working on more sounds today and made this Sawmill video: There are 8 separate saw sounds that get uniquely combined each time.

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Sounds

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Krom

I have a perfectionist bit in me that always tends to halt whatever is being made in favor of “making it perfect”. All in all “making it perfect” is a great idea, but it very often means that nothing is … Continue reading →

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More dirt and grass and sand

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Krom
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Parallelization

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Krom

With more content in the game (units, houses, terrain textures) the game loading got noticeably slower. Being able to launch the game and check the changes as quickly as possible is critical for early development. It disrupts the workflow a … Continue reading →

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Grass is coming

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Krom

First look at terrain textures in game:

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Terrain textures

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Krom

Past two weeks I have been experimenting with terrain textures for Alpha 7. I have a special tool to preview just one terrain tile – it makes experimenting and tweaking much simpler and faster. For example I have taken 4 … Continue reading →

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