Knights Province devblog

Two new things

Posted on December 19, 2015 by Krom

Two new things to show for today’s progress:

Oak trees and edge-of-the-map. Oak trees I like more (although they are gonna change in the future, with proper texturing and such). Map edge is certainly to get much prettier too.

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Guardians of treasures

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Krom

When you want to put a treasure on the map, how do you plan to keep the guards fed?

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Cotton to replace Sheep

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Krom

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

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Krom

Just have committed revision 3000 into Knighs Province SVN.

Yay!

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Continued planning on Control Points

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Krom

The game needs something to lure players out of their towns into the wild

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Collecting and fixing bugs

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Krom

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

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Krom

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:Â 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

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Krom

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

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Krom

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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Live Progress #44 – Previewing animations

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Krom

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