Category: devlog

A lot of stuff has been made this week, good news are that the game is ready for further development, and next week I plan to start adding features again.

The main changes are:

• New Render Pipeline asset: The new RP is responsible for giving the game the cartoon look, which fits perfectly with the game. Thanks to this, the materials use an unlit shader, meaning that they are no longer affected by light.
• New models: Trees, houses and villagers have now new models and textures so they can use those new materials and shaders. The issue with unlit materials is that model edges are no longer visible, so I had to paint some edges on the textures to bring the models alive. I had to change textures for every other object in the game as well, for the same reason.
• New animations: The tree chop animation is new, and I gave the villagers axes so the animation looks better (punching trees was not too credible)

That’s all for this week, next week’s milestones will be more ambitious, and I will try to give myself work for two weeks instead of one.

Thanks for reading, have a nice weekend!

Milestone 3 plus one of the bonus goals (Modelling the house) completed!

It has been a busy week with lots of different stuff changing in the game, although most of them are unnoticeable, for example, the work system I thought was solid, well…. it was not. I had to change everything adding a action queue system that handles everything for each unit. For example, now when you tell a unit to collect resources:

1. The unit does not need to be in the same hex as the resource.
2. The unit will move to the commanded hex and then start collecting resources.

The other main goal accomplished is the building system, which has been fairly easy to make once the work system was ready, and it works quite good even if it needs some tweaks.

The buildings take a fixed amount of turns to be built (which will probably be changed at some point) and they hold three different models for the building process (foundations, work in progress and finished). Currently the transitions between states is not very polished, but in terms of functionality everything works great.

The last work added is the building repair. It works both for damaged buildings and unfinished ones, but is currently in development and has some bugs, at the end of the video you can see how repairing an already finished building, changes it’s visuals to the work in progress version.

For the visuals, I changed the minerals’ looks, although I am still not happy with them, so they are probably changing again in near future, I also added some animations both to minerals and trees that trigger when the resources are over. A building animations has been added as well, which, to be honest, does not look great, but it will stay there for the moment.

Thanks for reading! Have a nice weekend and Gora Celedon!! 😉

Hey there! I am happy to announce that I am working a lot faster than expected, and I have already completed the Milestone 1!

I decided to give the Villager, and the game assets in general, a low-poly look, without huge details, just the base mesh and some basic materials. Here is a brief summary of how has the Villager been made:

• The 3D model has been made in Blender, using a basic low-poly humanoid mesh I found online, you can check it here. Adding details like the hat or the trousers later.
• For the animations, Mixamo, which I highly recommend unless you know how to properly animate a humanoid. But, as with every external software, I spent some time polishing and debugging the animations, like fixing extrange offsets appearing when animations blend with each other.

About the rest of the features shown in the video, the were already implemented before the Villager. Here is a list of the currently implemented features as a recap:

• Hex-tile procedural world generation, with forests and lakes.
• Turn-based movement system
• Building system prototype (In future, the villagers will be the ones responsible for the buildings).
• A* pathfinding system for units, that avoid lakes and obstacles (currently only buildings).
• UI prototype, displaying resource data and a Next Turn button that skips the turn.

That’s all for now, keep tuned for the next milestone, which will probably be announced next Monday!

Thanks for reading!!

Today I started working in the visual aspect of the game. I began painting the board so it looks like the original. The base texture was made by Kronbits , you can find a bunch of free, quality textures on his itch.io post: https://kronbits.itch.io/matriax-free-cg-textures

I took his texture and painted over with Clip Studio, trying to imitate the original board. I’m not completely satisfied with the result, so I’ll probably paint the texture background with a colour that highlights the drawings, Hope you like it!!

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