Hey guys!

Tiyuri has kindly allowed me to hijack today’s progress report (not without me nagging him repeatedly, mind) to talk a little about what I’ve been working on the past few days with our musical instruments.

Bartwe worked hard last weekend to get the system in place, and I’ve been taking full advantage, testing various potential instruments with dozens of ABC files.

At present there’s almost 20 instruments already in the game, with more to come as time goes on.

It’s been a bit of a time-consuming task collecting all the necessary samples to make it work well, but hopefully the video below will demonstrate that it’s an effort that’s paying off nicely!

Hope you guys like what you hear!

All that remains really as far as the instruments are concerned is some pretty graphics to make them look the part, proper animations with the hands, a user interface so players can easily select their song of choice, and getting synchronized performances across multiple players.

It’s shaping up to be a great feature considering it started as a weekend project, expect to hear more soon!

Good night everybody!

Hi guys,

So another weekend another set of side projects.

Today I experimented with the idea of building extra sections onto your ship block by block. I ended up with something that allowed me to do this:

Honestly I’m not all that happy with how it looks, the mismatch between predrawn + block built ships really doesn’t look good.

Perhaps it’ll work out with some blocks made especially for this purpose? Hull blocks maybe?

I need to experiment with it a bit more and see how it ends up. If I can’t get it looking any better it might not make it into the game :( … though I suppose if you don’t build out your ship you don’t have to.

We also got campsites spawning on planets. They’re pretty rare but they’re nice to come across. You’ll meet NPCs at some of them that may or may not be friendly.

We’ve also configured all the beds in the game now, so when you do find a campsite you can take a rest at one. Resting restores health.

Omni hasn’t quite finished up his new tools yet. He ran into some bugs that slowed him down but he’s back on track now, so *HOPEFULLY* I can show you something of those tomorrow.

Cheers guys

Hi guys,

So today we finally got the bed functionality in. It was a lot more complex than it should have been because it required some deep changes to make the player pose-able in new ways. But it’s done at last and now I can go through each of the beds configuring the sleeping animation. Good job Bartwe!

This is a good example of a feature taking longer than expected because a bunch of changes needed to occur to get it working as intended. But it’s there now and tomorrow we can apply the finishing touches to the poses.

Would you prefer the player to be clothed or stripped of their armor when entering a bed?

Outside of this, Kyren is making great strides with the leveling system. She’s currently working on NPC leveling and soon moving onto ore multipliers for planets of varying threat levels.

Omni is finishing up work on a brand new tool, if all goes well we might be able to show it to you tomorrow or the day after. Depending on how many bug fixes need to happen.

Legris has started work on the Glitch intro after finishing all the art for the Floran intro.

George finished up the last of the quest mockups. They’re looking really slick.

Until tomorrow!