Author Archives: Krom

Alpha 7 bugs

So far Alpha 7 works out quite well. Collected only half a dozen of crashreports, mostly related to GPU drivers. There are couple of recurring bugreports that I would like to address:

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Alpha 7 is here!

Alpha 7 is finally ready! It took a long time, but the list of improvements is also long: Improved Win/Defeat graphics Reworked terrain to allow for textures 21 new terrain textures Terrain surfaces painting with weights in MapEd Improved and … Continue reading

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Today’s improvements

Today was a productive day for small fixups: Lots of renaming and refactoring in code Fixed falling tree sound played behind fog of war Added dev button to save running game into a mission (map + dat files) Made fog … Continue reading

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Note on Knights Province animations and how they got better last week

Knights Province needs a lot of animations. They are essential to making the games’ world feel alive. Here’s how they work and how they just got better. Animations start with a skeleton rig. Rig is a description of how character … Continue reading

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r4186 – Interpolating animations and refactoring AI

Smoothed house and unit animations. Where they were sampled at 30fps and nearest frame was picked to render, now the render shows interpolation result between two frames (article will follow later). Did a lot of work on refactoring old code, … Continue reading

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GUI improvements for upcoming Alpha 7

Added soft shadows around game panels. Also made panels to come to front and overlap other panels when clicked:

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Getting back to the game

This weekend was devoted to getting back to the game What has been done towards Alpha 7: Allowed to select enemy and neutral houses and units and see their generic info Added entrance element to house plans fences Added neutral … Continue reading

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Lower priority

I’m going through some busy times which put Knights Province development on a lower priority for now. Haven’t touched the game in 5 weeks and looks like won’t be touching for another few. On one side it’s a bad thing, … Continue reading

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4000 commits, yay!

Did 4000th commit into Knights Province repository yesterday – another milestone! 🙂 Took me some 2,5 years.

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Reworking fighting mechanics

This week I was working on new fighting mechanics for Knights Province. I want fights to be a little less random. Hence units will have a lot of hitpoints and proper damage range. Should these numbers show to a player? … Continue reading

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