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[Belimoth]

Yeh, currently moonman can chop anywhere, but limiting the chopping radius is definitely in my TODO list.

Are you going to limit the radius within which clicking on a block is effective? Or will you be limiting the actual distance that the mouse cursor can be from moonman?

The second would be less frustrating but maybe that won't work with the rest of your interfaces, idk.

100% in favor of more animations.

[eigenbom]

@jmcmorris, thx for the tip although can i recommend doing

Code:

if MAX_DIST*MAX_DIST> xd*xd+yd*yd then..

in future..

@belimoth You'll be able to click anywhere on screen, in order to inspect things far away, select items from your inventory, use the menu, etc. and I think I'll change the cursor when you're able to use the currently wielded item on the block/target/thing under the cursor.

[Belimoth]

I like that.

[peous]

100% in favor of more animations.

Even if Ninja Dodo's artwork is really nice (like the motion in the pics), I would warn against too precise animations, because they take a lot of time.
I can get used to moonman not having any anim but if you do animations, then you have to do it for all blocks positions, and it seems a lot of work... If you can find generic animations...

Hmmm... Maybe he can throw his axe ?

[jmcmorris]

@jmcmorris, thx for the tip although can i recommend doing

Code:

if MAX_DIST*MAX_DIST> xd*xd+yd*yd then..

in future..

@belimoth You'll be able to click anywhere on screen, in order to inspect things far away, select items from your inventory, use the menu, etc. and I think I'll change the cursor when you're able to use the currently wielded item on the block/target/thing under the cursor.

Haha, sure if you are doing this calculation a lot then you can save a little by doing that. I only do it when the player clicks so the few extra instructions probably don't make that big of a difference.

[eigenbom]

@peous Yeh I don't plan on doing context sensitive animations like that, but I have built a mini component animation system, e.g., moonman himself is put together from a body, legs, arms, and head, each with their own animations, anchor points, etc. There are details somewhere in the previous 50 pages of this devlog..

Update: inventory integrated back in, can drag,drop,merge,swap and renders blocks. hotbar fills first. can select and carry blocks. modified some block sprites slightly, reduced hue shift, added vines to world.

[mokesmoe]

I like it!


(The new hue shift that is.)

[Ashkin]

Can't wait until the caves have lighting + glowing mushrooms + gold.
I mean um
 

[peous]

nice caves, I hope you can slide on the slopes !

[eigenbom]

mokesmoe - cheers

haha ashkin, well mm will eventually have bombs and laser guns too. how is subterrane going btw?

peous - aw no sliding, thats too tricky a manuveur for moonman..

[C.D Buckmaster]

Those caves look amazing, the patterns remind me of H.R Giger's work for some reason.

[wademcgillis]

Moonman (Loves You) better be the name of the game.

[Ashkin]

how is subterrane going btw?

like a corpse

[eigenbom]

@cd cheers, also i'm a big hr giger fan
@wade Ha, yeh I'm cycling through different (messages) in the parentheses

Update: slopes orient based on direction, block place makes a sound, inventory/hotbar icons made bigger, moonman starts with a bunch of items, moonman inventory reduced to 50, place blocks with RIGHT MOUSE now. minor bugfixes, itemmanager handles item info, spawn axes, swords, and potions into the world on startup, change held item on inventory swap, change held item on click hotbar.

Here's a gif (clicky) of the inventory system and block placing in action. The colours are a bit messed up due to the gif compression. :S



click to gif

[eigenbom]

Update: decided to give the lighting system another go. working on a parallel implementation of lighting that acts on subchunks. in early stages. ugly blending but you can see it sort of works..

[eigenbom]

Doing some mockups of different lighting thingimajigs.. i think i prefer (B), but i'm not sure..

[Claw]

I just wrote some crap about B being my favourite but could do with a blend between the last colour and black - then I realised my monitor was tilted and had sun on it so I just couldn't see the darkest grey

B is my fav too, looks goooood - love the tile patterns too 

[peous]

you style is definitely blocky, so (B) matchs better and makes the game different from Terraria or so

[Common Kingfisher]

Every game that lists Dwarf Fortress as one of its inspiration is a game to watch out for in my book I also like the art style. Very Knytt-ish

And I would have to side with Claw and peous : B looks much better

Edit : Wait a minute, there's a C and a D ? How come I didn't saw them on my computer ? o_O Well, in that case I'll have to settle for C instead. Maybe D but it's not blocky enough.

[namragog]

Definitely C!