Four veteran heroes, one shared turn meter, and a battlefield that keeps filling. You control all four and swap between them in real time: each enemy type answers to a specific hand, and using the wrong one isn't a failure state so much as a time cost you can't easily recover. Flyers go down to ranged attacks, heavy enemies yield to blunt force, and some things shrug off physical attacks entirely until you switch to magic. The meter doesn't pause while you think about it.
The crisis you're fighting through is one you caused. The world is dealing with the consequences of a decision made before the game begins, and the scale of what's been unleashed keeps growing the further in you get. You're not a hero arriving to fix someone else's problem. You're the reason the problem exists, working your way back through it with the same four people who were there when it started.
The game targets a bright, vivid aesthetic: bold colours, strong outlines, and a visual style that sits somewhere between graphic and painterly. The world it depicts is in serious trouble, but it doesn't look like it, and that contrast is intentional.
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There really isn't much to say on this update.
My "9-5" has kept me pretty busy lately, but I've got some time now and I've been working on the project management side of things.
However, I have spent this morning getting it all sorted (see the image for the "ooh look, it's working" version), and now that I've got the iterations/phases sorted, I hope to make some progress and be able to keep track.
I really ought to hire a PM for all this.
You can probably see from the latest bunch of commits, I've been giving this project some serious attention.
I think the main point is that the Project is now coming together. The assets have been organised, there's a real structure there now, and the game docs are actually unified, which will help with drift.
VFXs are now coming into play, which is an interesting curve, and the save system has fully moved over to JSON (which I do like). There were a lot of bugs to squash along the way, as as per usually, bugs are hyrdra.
A lot of refactoring all around, but it's worth it.
Reorganising assets
VFX
A complete reworking to get the VFX looking much shaper.
144. Saving Race Conditions
143. Delegates And Actions For Leveling Up
142. Events And Delegates
141. Squashing Health Bugs
140. Displaying The Level
139. Levelling Up
138. Performant Lookups With Dictionaries
137. Displaying Experience
Saving System issues
Fixing Prefabs
They all become broken
136. Saving Experience Points
135. Finding A Stat By Enum
134. Editing Scriptable Object Files
133. Awarding Experience Points
132. Enemy Health Display
131. Debug Health Display
130. Looking Up The Health Stat
Missing files and cleaning up
129. Progression Scriptable Object
128. Progression Design
Moving things around
And adding some other enemy types.
Fixes for the fixes
You fix one thing, and another 7 break
Cleaning up save system scripts
Random updates
I've been fixing a lot of things, so I think all these are just normal updates.
Deleting this file
I don't think it's needed anymore
Moving Blend files out of Unity
Probably missing some assets, maybe "sword" isn't "sword" but actually "sword 2" from a different pack.
MapToMAST Generator
A simple tool that takes VTT maps and creates Unity levels based off them, using MAST tool. And some other random changes.
A few updates
Sandboxing with MAST again
Fertile Soil MAST
Going back to FSP MAST setup. Better aesthetics, apparently. Using Modular Terrain 1 and maybe switch to 2 later.
Imported Crops
Updated asset list
Adding Crops
MVP OoS Asset Packs
Importing assets
Opened up Unity so it can import assets, sync up, etc.
Updating weapons
The Ultimate Pack, overwritten with the Medieval/Modular Weapons pack - why? they render better (colours in the 3D Viewer) AND gives more variety.
Cleaning up weapons
"Lost weapons" are Q's Modular Weapons, the ones not replaced/overwritten by Ultimate RPG Pack
Art bible specs
127. Pickup respawning
125 + 126 - resources and saving weapon
I did 124 myself
Updating Docs
Renaming Docs
More Unix friendly
Updated Docs
Files were moved
I don't know why, but they've been put back. Unity needs opening up again to sync/import.
Reassign materials
Material location broke when moving files. This fixes it.
Updated Game Docs
After some futher adjustments and inspiraton, these should be locked down now.
123. Destroy The Unwanted
Double check after merge
Because SourceGit seems to randomly NOT stay sync'd up!
Impact FX and moved assets
I should have separated these out, but I didn't, so it's a mess. Moved the assets, whilst working on the Impact FX, and the Magic Missile. It works, just messy.
Finally got "Magic Missile" working
Took far too long, uncovered and fixed some bugs, also played around with VFX Graph (maybe for later, not prototyping).
Update Docs: reflect current workflow/progression
121. Fireball Particle System
Skipping until I get the aesthetics sorted.
Made the bow bigger
Update asset list
120. Fireball Weapon & Pickup
Projectile doesn't show if using the wrong animation; used Pistol as it has a projectile. Spell is just AoE kind of thing
119. Improve Projectile Behaviour
Fixed the sword pickup transform values
118. Destroy Old Weapon
Renaming for Sandbox
Some changes Just updating stuff
Cleaning up assets New build; using own models from scratch, Blender -> Unity
Updated docs
More concepts These are added as tests, etc., they serve no specific purpose
Moving concepts out of the Unity dir
Upgraded Unity version to LTS
This includes security issue fixes and installed Recorder for screenshots.
Why exactly is this changed since pulling?
Tweaked assets for Simple Weapons 2, left hand
Added some new concepts
Tweaked assets for Simple Weapons 1, right hand
Not entirely too sure, but probably to do with the weight painting
#4 - Baron eyebrows and cape; try weighting
After getting the Baron character model rigged and animated, I noticed some bugs with the cape and eyebrows (they literally disappeared).
Both the eyebrows and cape were a separate mesh, but a part of the same object, so to rectify, I merged some vertices from each to some from the main body. Then auto-weighting the model again fixed these issues.
Further work is needed for the cape, as it's clipping into the back.
#9 - Water edge/foam shader; but intersecting foam not working
Updated gitignore - stupid idea folder
#1 - Tree import settings
I've been working on this for a while, trying out different techniques. I think I finally have a style I like.
All that is next is to figure out why the "intersecting foam" isn't working as intended.
I was getting this issue for weeks. Using imported assets, whenever I painted trees on to Unity's terrain, I got the error message of The tree [Name] must use the Nature/Soft Occlusion shader. Otherwise billboarding/lighting will not work correctly.
This didn't affect the game or project in any way, but it was surely annoying.
I had 2 options:
Neither of these were ideal.
I finally figured it out by using LOD. It required creating a new Prefab, an empty GameObject with the LOD component. Within that, 3 child objects that were the model in question. These were named LOD[0-2], and were placed in their corresponding LOD (within the parent component). Maybe I could have used just 1 child object.
Then I had the painstaking process of replacing all the trees for every terrain with the new prefab version.
Replanted the scenes :-D
Added blurb to TechDoc
Added title to TechDoc
Mass re-import and bug fixes; things unrelated, but a big ol' patch; just need to fix annoy tree warnings
Added Technical document for how-tos
"#14 - Test scene management; tweaks to get a second scene working and looking good"
Updated gitignores
Updated with Rider
Fix a bunch of bugs
#3 - Saving update; up to step 2
Get rid of MicroSplat
"#12 - Shader to pull from Terrain"
Tweaks and testing before #10
Notes to credits.md
Added additional reference game
Added Hit event to Punch anim
Cleaning up assets
Baron rigging
Have imported Animations working, albeit models are twisted
A commit before Blending models - not sure why so many files though
Getting models and animations into place
Some tweaks to the environment
Water shader, minus the "foam" (just is buggy)
Tweaked the terrain paint
Updated Fields_Cliffs shader with [2] Blue Channel
Added SplatAlpha to Triplanar shader
Updated terrain paint
Custom triplanar shader
Ooh boy, this was a fun one.
Within Unity, you have the Terrain tool. This is great for creating levels/environments. Adjust the height, add some colour/texture, and paint some trees.
However, the biggest issue is the vertical stretching.
Long story short, I had to create my own triplanar shader for the vertical faces, and also integrate the splatmap too. It took some time, but it was finally done.
And it's fairly dynamic too!
Updated some model materials
Some fixes, I think
Updated MicroSplat Core
Upgraded to 2019.4.40
Microsplat asset for triplanar
Updated textures and materials
Scaling
Textures
Added Springmeadow neighbouring terrains
tweaked camera rotation
Changes to Springmeadow Campsite
Added portal
Added Credits file
Updated assets to remove unused
Added the other levels, and pushing along with some other auto-generated changes
Made some changes, but committed much later (and forgot)
FBX settings. If Blender looks okay, FBX Export (Z Forward, Y Up); Preserver Hierarchy in Unity. Apply Texture to Material to Model.
Updated texture paths in Blender
Updated assets
Organsied assets
Fixed the missing bridge and imported/metad everything
Restore the Gob!
Cleaning up assets
Updated Games Design Document.md
Format Games Design Document.md
Formatting GDD
Fix image
Forgot to make it .MD
Add Games Design Document (Udemy S3.21)
Remove ignored files
Generated gitignore for project
Gitignore csproj
Are we ignoring all idea folders?
Tweaking the level to match Udemy
Updated Library
Catching up with Udemy
Update Library
Moved assets around
Rename Springmeadown Campsite terrain
Made terrain walkable - NavMesh Navigation
Imported Ultimate Nature Pack
Added Ultimate Nature Pack
Updated Library
Springmeadow Campsite design
Updated Library
Scaled up the scene
Library update
Redesign of Springmeadow Campsite based on DnD map
Moved Concepts into Assets to be used in Unity
Battlemaps from DnD Campaign
Added gitignore for Temp files when Project is open
Some Library files
Updating meta files and Library
Moved assets around
Merged the Nature folders
Rename Monsters folder
Updated to 2019.4
Rebuild Library
Testing on Ubuntu
Updated gitignore to ignore meta files if asset is ignored also
Organised assets
Unity project running
Organise assets
Organised assets
Completed 'How to Git with Unity'
Git Attributes
Update Visible Meta Files
On RackStation
Update gitignores
Trying to get Ranger rig working
Ranger rigged and animation append
Section 10: Simple Weapons, up to 114 - Left Handed Weapons
Section 8: Saving Asset Pack
Namescaped the code
Import Saving System
Section 7: Scene Management
Up to video 63 - cinematics
Some fixes and stuff
New nav bake
Character models from Quaternius
Tweaked CameraController to be isometric fixed angle
Cleanup project files
Enemy AI
AI suspicion
AI Guarding
IMport house models to assets folder
Extract house models to assets folder
get rid of debug log
Disabled control when dead
Missing few lines of CharacterMotor; updated to fix and no longer using Brackey's code
Cleanup code and on ep. 48
Basic combat finished. Need to add death anim
All rigged and animated, on to video 39
Animation clips and collider positions
Updated character tags
Updated controller with correct attack animation
Update to child rigging
Assets
Funny things
Goblin animated and imported. Can now run. Variable prefab. Need to attack.
House and bridge
After loads of experimenting with Rigify
Rigged the Goblin
Variant prefabs
Created Player so scripts are all on Baron. Gonna be difficult to change models now
Tried duplicate to remove read only
Animations: Trying to get Hit() to work - Read Only?
Sorting out Dependencies
Start of Combat Controller
Added some monsters; tweaked some code
Constant moving when mouse held down
Camera controller how I like it
Textured river bed
River
Terrain Tree Billboard Start to view trees
Basic movement tweaks, but first, camera controller.
Updated player prefab
Some tweaks to controllers
Movement animation; pulling from Brackeys. Needs cameraController.
Unity project set up
Fresh start for Udemy course
Backup before doing Udemy course