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[moi]

the "flat paper" effect is sweet, good idea.

[godatplay]

It might be a liiiihhttle over-saturated, but I do like the more intense colors.  Maybe 5-10% less??

[Hempuli‽]

I repeat what I said earlier: nothing wrong otherwise with the colours, but the dirt is too warm-coloured.

[astrospoon]

I like the trees as they are, but would like to see more bushes? Or smaller vegetation.

I'm planning on adding more vegetation and "noise", but it will be less important to gameplay (like dead bushes and small weeds and grasses and things) I agree that more stuff will make it feel a bit more organic, which I think it still needs.

I repeat what I said earlier: nothing wrong otherwise with the colours, but the dirt is too warm-coloured.

I'm gonna mess with this a bit when I get some time. I can see what you mean though. I like the contrast with the warm safeness of the forest areas with the really cold feeling other areas. (Mountains and Ice and things...) But it may be pushed too far.

The colors in certain areas look a little over-saturated to me, though (on both my Macbook Pro and my desktop).  Especially the trees.  Does anyone else feel this way?

This is totally my work in toys coming out, where you always want things to be super saturated I've been fiddling a bit with filters over the screen to mess with things, and it would be easy enough to desaturate the art with that. (Though I still want to keep the "storybook" feel to the art). The weather effects may also really mute the art some. (Clouds and snow and things) I need to watch this though, if the details in the art start being hard to view on certain monitors b/c of the colors though.

What bothers me more is the extreme perspective - the trees look odd! I'm sure it's a stylistic choice, though.

Yeah- as I said earlier, this is kind of innovation by necessity. I'm using MMF2 for rapid development, so I can't really do true 3D, but I still wanted to get the kind of "landscape" and "epic" feel that you get from a 3d perspective. As a neat by product, I think it really complements the storybook aesthetic that the art is going for.

Back to working on the RV... should be driving it around before I go to bed tonight

[Adamski]

I panicked and almost thought you had deleted this devlog when it wasn't on the front page still. Keep at it     

[astrospoon]

Still chuggin...

I'll probably not post much in the next week or so though.

[ak]

I love this RV By the way, thanks for the explanation, i'll add "Try out Blender" to the list of things i'd love to do but that i'll be too lazy to try.

[astrospoon]

yeah-- Blender is pretty unintuitive. I had to relearn it when I revised the RV to be proportioned better. I had forgotten all the *required* keyboard commands. YUCK

UPDATE: decided to try making a quick video to see how it would come out. The volume is not loud enough, but if you turn up your speakers, it is there...





See what you think... still has minor glitches and stuff going on.

[JaJitsu]

hahahaha

oh he is not going to run ov-

nvm...

[godatplay]

Awesome!!  Thanks for the video, it's exciting to see the game in action.  Keep at it, sir.   

[Poor Lazlo]

Looking great! A question: Is there any point to using the hunting rifle when the RV is at hand?

[team_q]

I thought the RV was only for traveling, but it appears to make an effective hunting tool!

[astrospoon]

Haha... actually, the RV is hopefully not going to be that effective. The oxen will damage it, but also you have a high chance of slamming into a cliff or wall while you speed around. And if you wreck the RV, the traveling is much worse on foot. So hopefully this will make it not wise to hunt with it.

I also am going to make the oxen run away from loud noises as well, which includes gunfire and the RV engine. The plan is that you won't be able to get that close to them with the RV anyway. But if you run up on foot, they won't notice you.

I had to code collision with the RV in though, since there will be other things you can hit with the RV

[deathtotheweird]

aw the poor oxen 

[Hempuli‽]

Looks great!

EDIT: Oh, how shameful to post such a sort post, I'll say something more!

Are you sure you don't want to make the RV have all those 32 directions? With a 3D model it shouldn't be that time-consuming!

[JaJitsu]

You should make it to where you can't instantly turn around in the RV
to make it more realistic to car physics

[astrospoon]

You should make it to where you can't instantly turn around in the RV
to make it more realistic to car physics

Working on it. Right now you can't turn unless the RV is moving, but if it is even a little bit you can rotate it around. I need to adjust that.

Are you sure you don't want to make the RV have all those 32 directions? With a 3D model it shouldn't be that time-consuming!

It wouldn't be. But there are other things that can "attach" to the RV that I don't want to animate in 32 dir. I'm not saying what though....

Frustrating time these last few days. I had a program killing bug that I couldn't figure out. I lost like 2 days to it. After you played for a while, you started to be able to drive right through new rocks and trees that were getting generated -- all of the collision just stopped working. Turns out, the fixed ids that MMF2 was generating for each object got larger than the max value of a variable in LUA. Then it was like looping around to the negative values or something. (And I don't test negative ids, since -1 is the flag for "nothing found") Such a mess.

I'm not sure I'm going to make IGF in fine fashion, but I'm gonna kill myself this week. Yeeeha!!!!

btw-- the heatline itself and snow are in:



(you can see my debug code spitting out the collision events at the top.)

[JaJitsu]

It wouldn't be. But there are other things that can "attach" to the RV that I don't want to animate in 32 dir. I'm not saying what though....

I thinking rocket launcher.

[godatplay]

Well I hope the road leading up to the IGF is a relatively smooth one then. 

Maybe there should be more vegetation around the line?  And maybe some kind of environmental hint that you are getting closer to the line over time, like when you're still a screen away or something.  I'm not sure what that would be other than vegetation, though.  Ice patches where the snow melted and froze after the wind hit it?  Just thinking out loud.

[Wander]

The vid looks cool!  Glad you're making good progress on this one.