Author Archives: Krom

Caster status update

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Krom

Let’s see a bit about Caster navigation state: Whats right: Unit interaction (avoiding each other, pushing out, etc) Basic pathfinding Unpassable terrain outlines generation Avoiding unwalkable outlines Fixed a few bugs in Recast code rewritten for Caster A lot of … Continue reading →

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New Caster Navigation looks promising

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Krom

Reimplementing the algorithm with critical thinking over every procedure seems to be working well. Agents already avoid and push each other out of the way. And the best part – I know why they do so now. A little sneak … Continue reading →

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Heads up on progress

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Krom

RecastNavigation port did not work out as well as I expected. Area costs do not always work, agents get stuck, paths are sub-optimal. Now working on writing my own Caster Navigation (see the anagram 😉 ) following Recast steps with … Continue reading →

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Alpha 3.02 – 3.08

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Krom

Just a small fog of war update. Trying to fix the units/houses/minimap missing on a small group of players. Update: Alpha 3.07+ should be ending the fog of war issues now.

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Alpha 3. Wagons!

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Krom

Alpha 3 is here and it has something new! There are many ideas for the Knights Province that revolve around the checkpoints (CP) on the map. Perhaps I should explain what CPs are first. CPs are points on the map … Continue reading →

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Alpha 2.01 in works

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Krom

List of upcoming bugfixes: Made FOW updates to game logic more frequent Range-check error when woodcutter is going to cut a tree near the maps edge Replays and savegames do not load AI would crash on attempt to train soldiers … Continue reading →

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Alpha 2 featuring smooth fog of war

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Krom

The main feature of this release is smooth real-time fog of war (FOW). Unlike previous version, this FOW is computed on GPU and is updated every frame, syncing back to the games logic every now and then. You can clearly … Continue reading →

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Yet another Alpha 1 update

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Krom

Alpha 1 receives yet another update. The biggest change (apart from many bugfixes) is temp display of unit types icons: Once again larger portion of changes is dedicated to bugfixes. Here’s the list: + Units are not visible along right/bottom … Continue reading →

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Temp solution for missing unit models

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Krom

While there are no proper unit models, temp solution is to overlay the unit icons and assest they carry (or armed with):

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Alpha 1 update

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Krom

Thank you everyone for sending in crashreports and contacting me on Skype/Facebook/other media. Knights Province is coming along nicely. There are many bugfixes, but so far none of them are blockers AND hard to fix at the same time 🙂 … Continue reading →

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