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Cotton to replace Sheep
As some of you noticed in-game and on site plans – Sheep farm was planned to be in the game to produce yarn from which cloth would be made to hire citizens.
Major drawback is consistency, sheep would have to grow without food and could not be slaughtered for food (otherwise cloths would be too hard to make).
An alternative was found – cotton farms.
Process of making cotton is rather simple. It’s planted, it grows, farmer picks it and processes into yarn. No extra complications 🙂
So that is the plan for next or one-after-the-next Alpha – Cotton Farms! 🙂
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Rev 3000
Just have committed revision 3000 into Knighs Province SVN.
Yay!
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Continued planning on Control Points
The game needs something to lure players out of their towns into the wild
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Collecting and fixing bugs
Thanks everyone for testing and reporting bugs!
So far these are fixed:
- After restart / models reload, serfs have wrong texture
- Overlapping ware rows in MapEd house page
- Crash when registering mission victory to Records
Known, but not fixed:
- Woodcutter and many other units float without animations
I’m thinking about releasing Alpha 4.01 next weekend with more bugfixes.
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Alpha 4
I positively hate writing news posts.
It’s been a long time since Alpha 3, almost 600 revisions. I had plans to include new navigation model into Alpha 4, but .. even with good progress on Caster, it still takes a LOT of effort to get done. And even more to get it done right. So long story short – why not release everything else that got improved in Alpha 4 and postpone Caster to later version? 😉
Alpha 4 features a lot of improvements in many areas – I have tried to list them below. Most important are unit models and nice skeletal animation.
Feedback is welcome here in comments, in English forum (link), Russian forum (link), on Facebook (link) and everywhere else!
Download: Knights Province Alpha 4
Changes in code and functionality:
- Made F11 menu 3-state (none-status-devmenu)
- New campaigns popup instead of page
- Records page
- Change base terrain height in MapEd (via “resize” menu)
- Support for weight-mapped skeletal models (weights with percentages, 2 for now)
- Textured wares in serfs hands
- Textured units (with fixed DUVs)
- Preview units locations when moving/rotating groups
- Reworked and unified F11 panel across tools
- Add common house/unit/ware types to be used in script instead of ids
- Add a target time to workplan and lerp all the work stages to it
- Changed terrain equalize brush in MapEd, now it produces more natural results
- .. and many more changes I forgot to register
Changes in art:
- Models and rigs for Serf, Worker, Stonecutter
- Just models for Woodcutter, Axeman
- Placeholder animals models (wolf, bear, deer, boar)
- .. and some more changes I forgot to register
Bugfixes:
- Giving move order via mini map (units walks near the edge of the map and stop there instead of heading towards given direction)
- You can place gold mine on gold mountain plan, even though it’s red.
- Iron/Gold/Stone are now shown on minimap
- Fixed Iron/Gold mines placement highlight
- Range errors when reloading maps in MapEd
- Doing trades in Market crashed the game
- Repainting same tile again in MapEd does not work
- Cannot edit weapons count in Fort in MapEd
- After changing resolution, all buildings and trees become darker
- In MapEd houses can be placed on top of decals
- AI training recruits for Fort, but not counting them
- Depletion of stone for stonecutter causes a crash
- Road/Field plans can be placed over decals (e.g. stone deposits)
- .. and many more fixes I forgot to register
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Live Progress #45 – Need campaigns
I figure the game needs a short campaign to tie up existing test missions together. Been working on that in past week:
Planning to make the second mission dedicated to resources mining. And here’s a little guarded bonus for explorers:
Whole thing is still largely wip and a lot will change, but for now this mission helps me to polish the wagon interactions.
Other advancements:
- More unit models and animations
- Recolored terrain surfaces
- Lots of things I cant remember now
- Improved height brushes in MapEd
- Allowed to select and save campaign maps from MapEd menus, no need to copy files manually anymore
- Terrain height can be changed globally in MapEd now
- Lots of bugfixes and minor improvements
Bonus info: KP scripting now has Actions.UnitOwnerChange. So that this wagon could be easily transferred with all its contents to the player once he defeats the guards.
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Public wiki
Public wiki was set and is planned to store script commands and other lookup materials at https://github.com/Kromster80/knights_province/wiki
You can also file Issues and requests at https://github.com/Kromster80/knights_province/issues
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Animations sidenote
Asked to send me a rigged and animated character for a test. Came in in FBX format. Surprisingly it imported well into Lightwave and exported into Knights Province animation format without a glitch. The only downside is that the rig had much too many bones for the game (86) and was rotated 90 degrees. The game’s engine can handle up to just 16. Had to trim the excess for a test. Of course later on, with dedicated animations I can raise the limit and order animations with less bones. All in all I’m very happy to see it is working out so well. Hope to tease you with some screens/videos later 🙂
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