Author Archives: Krom

Performance charts

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Krom

Rigged those fancy-looking performance charts today. Each section is part of the total frame render time. As you can see, example frame gets rendered under 20ms (equals to ~50fps). Most of the time is spent in rendering of terrain and … Continue reading →

Posted in Sidenotes, Tools | 9 Comments

More sounds

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Krom

Was working on more sounds today and made this Sawmill video: There are 8 separate saw sounds that get uniquely combined each time.

Posted in Live progress, Video | 2 Comments

Sounds

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Krom

I have a perfectionist bit in me that always tends to halt whatever is being made in favor of “making it perfect”. All in all “making it perfect” is a great idea, but it very often means that nothing is … Continue reading →

Posted in Live progress | 7 Comments

More dirt and grass and sand

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Krom
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Parallelization

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Krom

With more content in the game (units, houses, terrain textures) the game loading got noticeably slower. Being able to launch the game and check the changes as quickly as possible is critical for early development. It disrupts the workflow a … Continue reading →

Posted in How things work | 2 Comments

Grass is coming

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Krom

First look at terrain textures in game:

Posted in Sidenotes | 7 Comments

Terrain textures

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Krom

Past two weeks I have been experimenting with terrain textures for Alpha 7. I have a special tool to preview just one terrain tile – it makes experimenting and tweaking much simpler and faster. For example I have taken 4 … Continue reading →

Posted in How things work, Live progress | 2 Comments

Town Tutorial challenge

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Krom

Thimo has posted a challenge on the forum – who can beat his time in Town Tutorial: topic

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Alpha 6.3 bugfixes

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Krom

Thank you for reporting bugs! Following bugs have been fixed: Crash on startup caused by terrain shaders (“const vec2 poissonDisk[16] = vec2[](“) Fixed Cidermakers and Brewery offsets Crash on ending missions with captured wagons Sorting SP maps by title and … Continue reading →

Posted in Downloads, News | 18 Comments

Alpha 6.2 bugfixes

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Krom

List of bugfixes in Alpha 6.2: Crash when placing Fishermans near right/bottom edge of the map Crash when entering selected wagon into Camp Selecting Wagon in MapEd caused a crash Builders won’t repair damaged houses Fighting Back mission victory condition … Continue reading →

Posted in Downloads, News | 10 Comments