I’ve finished first (alpha?) version of new tileset graphics layout. It’s available in Downloads section. I’ll continue to add new stuff to tileset, but for now I wanna move this version into production, so you would be able to play with it 😉
Now I’m binding graphics to databases. Past stream in English with this work:
Soon (tm)
New version of MAngband released! It’s got a lot of new cool features: changelog
https://mangband.org/ (Multiplayer Angband) — vanilla online roguelike game; mother of online roguelike genre; gave birth to PWMA (and of course AO!).
Dear MAngband team, thank you for your great job! 🙂 Together we would bring online roguelike genre to the new level!
YAY! Powerwyrm made it! 😀 Now it’s possible to assign up to 65025 object’s images to the game World!
@Powerwyrm:
– Make book realms struct magic_realm
– Give spells a realm
– Remove class realms, replace class spellcasting stat with average of spellcasting stats
– Remove obsolete PRAY packet, use CAST instead
– Move books from object.txt to class.txt
– Add drop-base to monster.txt
– Monsters with “drop-base” drop random book based on depth
– Rename House of Arcanes to Bookseller
– Redesign town_feat.txt and town_xxx.txt files to allow 255×255 different tiles in towns
I’ll finish new tileset asap to produce wipe&restart. Huuuge streams are coming!
And it’s not the end of good news.. I’ll share some more cool stories soon 😛
Great news! Powerwyrm invented new revolutionary feature to enhance tileset!
You can put anything in the “mask” parameter. Basically you have 255 types of terrain with 255 different flavors. If you have less than 10 flavors, you can simply put 1,2…9 as parameter for easier comprehension.
Old system:
– terrain.txt
name : generic tree
– town_feat.txt
feat : T : generic tree
– town_test.txt
D:####
D:#TTT#
D:#TTT#
D:#TTT#
D:####
Here you can display 9 generic trees. But you cannot distinguish them.
New system:
– terrain.txt
name : pine
name : larch
name : oak
name : cypress
name : cedar
name : maple
name : elm
name : eucalyptus
name : aspen
– town_feat.txt
feat : T : 1 : pine
feat : T : 2 : larch
feat : T : 3 : oak
feat : T : 4 : cypress
feat : T : 5 : cedar
feat : T : 6 : maple
feat : T : 7 : elm
feat : T : 8 : eucalyptus
feat : T : 9 : aspen
– town_test.txt
map:####
map:#TTT#
map:#TTT#
map:#TTT#
map:####
mask:####
mask:#123#
mask:#456#
mask:#789#
mask:####
Here you can display 9 different trees.
So now terrain would support 65025 different tiles (it was 255 before)!
Some explanation how it works in past stream in English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWSgwMmMqX0
Tileset size increased to 4096×4096 -> .psd updated
Hiho! We are alive, don’t worry 🙂 Game is running and you could continue to play it; at the same time I’m continuing to develop new tileset. Almost finished with graphics itself; so soon would start to bind it to object’s DB.
Sometimes I make pause in development cause my hand hurt, but it’s not the main reason why tileset work go slowly: at first I wanted to create really ‘tiny’ demo of custom towns; but when I started to work, I understood that it would be better to make everything properly and use all available tiles – currently we are limited to 255 terrain objects in town_feat.txt , so I’ll use them all.. till the time when I’ll be able to lift ‘255’ limitation myself, as Powerwyrm refused to do it in PWMA. Yep, it’s pretty sad.. We (me and Powerwyrm) got problems in communication recently, but I hope we would be able to restore cooperation in future.
You could watch tileset creation process at my youtube channels during live streams or watch videos afterwards:
youtube.com/Tangaria — streams in English (also please look old vids on other channel playlist)
youtube.com/StreamGuild — streams in Russian (playlist)
Soon ™ new world begin!
@Powerwyrm:
– Replace “in the town” by “on the surface” when a character is killed outside of the dungeon
– Fix client not displaying the last messages before death (hopefully for good this time)
– Change Shapechangers’ AC formula from (equip + race / 2) to MAX((equip + race) / 2, equip)
– Add parser errors for trying to add a “normal” or “always” entry for Black Markets in store.txt
– Add rarity and price factor to “normal” entries in store.txt
– Add potions of Healing in the Temple (with high rarity and price factor)
Also there is a secret hidden update… I won’t tell much except this: take extra precautions when fighting with the most faithful Dark Lord servants :E
We got several good news (yay, no bad news yet! 😀 ):
We moved to the new server to solve lags problem. So far we tried Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. This time we are at Google Cloud. It should be much better as it’s much more expensive 😛 Please report if you would notice lags @ discord.
To connect you should update the client or manually change IP:
35.198.122.234
