THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

Any advice for me? :v

author=goldenroy
@Xenomic: Haha, a change indeed. The bottom screens looks way better, even though RTP can look nice (But not the 2k3 one >3<). Even though you said you wouldn't change the dimensions, the big part of water on the bottom of the map looks rather empty. Also, that plant on the water is not supposed to be placed.. on water, I think. But yeah, looks cool. huge improvement. :0


2k3 Standard Battle System (+ DynRPG of course) - Please ignore the background and testgraphics. 0:

I heard you were talking shit...

That's some pretty nice battle shit going on there. Not sure about the abundance of red and yellow, myself, but it looks pretty neat.

@Xenomic: It's fine. Water isn't supposed to be full of shit. I guess, if you feel that it's a big too blank, though, you could add a small island/cliff jutting out of the water, but yeah... water is supposed to be straight-up flat anyway. Unless you're in a swamp. Oh! How about some animals like swans and flies/mosquitos (black buzzing dots) and ripples? That can help 'liven' it up a little.

author=Liberty

author=goldenroy
@Xenomic: Haha, a change indeed. The bottom screens looks way better, even though RTP can look nice (But not the 2k3 one >3<). Even though you said you wouldn't change the dimensions, the big part of water on the bottom of the map looks rather empty. Also, that plant on the water is not supposed to be placed.. on water, I think. But yeah, looks cool. huge improvement. :0


2k3 Standard Battle System (+ DynRPG of course) - Please ignore the background and testgraphics. 0:

I heard you were talking shit...

*Sarcastically coughs so hard he begins to wheeze*

To you, Xenomic, I would suggest above all things to start making the river's edge more curvy instead of straight for more than one to two tiles at a time. Once that's done, you could start mixing up the grass decoration so it doesn't appear like long brushstrokes of the same graphic.

Randomly generated RPG I'm working on.

Her eyes are so massive and her feet are so tiny.

I really like the outfit though.

I don't understand why there would be those pipes in a house/hotel. What exactly is this map? I think you should get rid of them. :)

I'd just make it look Victorian.

Victorian Hotel 1
Victorian Hotel 2
Victorian Hotel 3
Victorian Hotel 4

Steampunk is about Victorian aesthetics, and about steam engine technology used to create modern or futuristic levels of machinery. But a hotel isn't likely to have much of the second part, especially not on the inside. Unless the building transforms into a gundam or something. All you really need is a regular fancy hotel from 1880 with a couple vents on the roof.

honestly the main problem is that the map you're basing it on is just as terrible as your version

but also a futuristic glass floor being suspended in midair and being only a few inches thick makes a lot more sense than a cobblestone floor being suspended in midair and being only a few inches thick.

The weirdest thing is actually at the top, where the wall just stops midair and then there's black void underneath. That wall should be going all the way down, don't you think? Maybe it should gradually get darker as it goes down.

@LockeZ: We used full-size before, but the effort wasn't really worth it, especially since animations needed to look more realistic too. So we modeled it after the sprites from the game and stylized it a bit to an approach that remains easy to use but high quality looking (hopefully!)

Since the art style is heavily anime-ish, makes sense to go with models that suite the same style. Gotta play off your strengths!

View is going to be similar to this:

author=NewBlack

author=LockeZ
Her eyes are so massive and her feet are so tiny.

I really like the outfit though.

That's a he! @Anaryu when/where are you posting about these exciting new developments?

We haven't posted much except those images on our blog.

A few 'inside' updates I still have URLs for though:
http://screencast.com/t/tPucP3CS
http://screencast.com/t/qIlECm0ly1v

and I've been finishing some tools for the 'tile' style editor we're using:
http://screencast.com/t/DSJ4hLrQSPu
http://screencast.com/t/bKP5uEKa4

Those were from about a week ago, lot of progress since then. : )

In particular I've got an event system very akin to an RM one working now, just finished parallel handling (so any 'event' can run it's own interpreter instead of going through the main one.)

Next is the culling and handling of switching floors so that you only see your floor and down and only see inside when you're inside a building. Once that's automated I'll start on the combat system.

Alaria's one is almost done, takes a bit over a day to 1.5 days to finish one of these guys (minus animations) now that we've got the base done and rigged (female and male base):


just finishing the hair and then seeing about using soft bodies to move her tie and hair.

We were going to wait until we had a working tech demo before posting the new project and maybe taking it a bit further!

With all this talk about towns...

Here's a mining town I just put together.


That little counter under the inn is your item shop.

...So far I like it, but I feel the top is a little empty... :S